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George Silverman's Explanation

To BENJAMIN WOOD,1 [?AUGUST-8 OCTOBER 1867]

Mention in To Marion Ely, 3 February 1869. Date: some time after Dolby’s meeting with Wood in August 1867 and before CD’s letter to Mrs Atwood, 8 Oct 67.

Saying that Wood had broken the conditions over “George Silverman’s Explanation” and CD would have nothing further to do with him.2

1. Benjamin Wood (1820-1900), of New York, Congressman and publisher: see further Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 350n.
2. Dolby gives the circumstances under which Wood failed to keep to his contract in CD as I Knew Him, pp. 128-9: see Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 450n and To Marion Ely, 3 Feb 69.