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Sirs: Having read the Satterlee and Corey letters in your magazine of February 5th, about the Hall Carbine Affair, in connection with the late J. Pierpont Morgan's banking business in 1861, and having also read Corey's and Satterlee's books, I wish you would clarify one point for me. In Corey's book he quotes a Government report censuring Morgan fer his part in the affair. The passage thus quoted, I am told, never mentioned Morgan but was directed against another banker, and Corey in his book used Morgan's name instead...
...your notice of my book J. Pierpont Morgan, an Intimate Portrait (Dec. 18) your reviewer takes exception to my clarification of the old Civil War Hall's carbine legend, and says...
...flaw in Lawyer Satterlee's case seems to be his statement that 'Pierpont . . . did not lend any money on [a] second shipment of carbines.' Lewis Corey, in The House of Morgan (1930) quotes the Reports of the House of Representatives to show that Morgan filed a bill with the Government for 58,175 for a second batch of carbines, a claim on which an investigating committee later allowed him $11,008." Mr. Corey misled your reviewer. Morgan never filed any bill with anyone, or made any claim against the Government. No committee, commission or court ever said...
...elder J. (for John) Pierpont Morgan distrusted newspapermen, avoided "magazine men," and there is no record of his having high regard for any writers except the dead. Unlike the Rockefellers, the Morgans nave not gone in for personal pressagentry; neither have they unbosomed themselves to historians. Consequently, the chief books on the elder Morgan, able in other respects, are either obscure or theatrical on the interesting question of how Morgan felt about being Morgan...
...When little Pierpont came into the world [in 1837] there were a great many business troubles," writes Mr. Satterlee gravely. Not greatly troubled was the well-to-do Morgan family of Hartford, Conn., though little Pierpont's grandfather, red-nosed, craggy-faced Abolitionist Preacher John Pierpont of Boston, had fights with some of his non-Abolitionist parishioners. In his school days "Pip" was a fun-loving, feverish, arrogant character with a temper and a direct, wide-open gaze. He and Joe Wheeler, later a Confederate cavalry leader, risked their necks and expulsion to carve their initials on the school...