[What the Well Read Former Attorney General Reads] [ALS] Maryland Senator Reverdy Johnson to Appleton & Co. requesting More Books

Baltimore, 1864. A very good copy.. 2pp. 5 x 8 inches. Johnson's follow up letter requesting Appelton & Co. to send him further books on Gladstone, Cicero, The Life of William Wirt, Attorney-general of the United States, and others.

Reverdy Johnson (1796-1876) was an American politician and defense attorney from Maryland, who served as Zachary Taylor's U.S. Attorney General, Senator from Maryland (1863 -1868) at the time of this letter, and later 23rd United States Minister to the United Kingdom.