Autograph Letter Signed ('F. B. Goodrich') from the American author Frank Boott Goodrich to Robert R. Corson, regarding references in his forthcoming 'Tribute Book' to the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon.

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The letter concerns Goodrich's 'The Tribute Book: A Record of the Munificence, Self-sacrifice and Patriotism of the American People during the War for the Union' (1865). He is sending 'proofs of the pages Corson desires to see. 'The first few pages are printed & cannot be changed: in the others, anything vital can be corrected.'; He thinks Corson 'will find that I have fallen into none of the errors you are apprehensive of'. To do so would have been 'unpardonable', as Goodrich 'had full information from which to make my articles'. He has taken great pains with the book, and hopes 'that it will come from the press correct in all matters of fact'. He has 'gone so far as to have the orthography of every name mentioned compared with the directories in all cities which publish one'. He has left out details of 'the number of soldiers fed for each of the 4 years': As the page is cast, these details will have to be filled in, 'even if I have to estimate the number'. The letter concludes: 'The innumerable and, I am afraid, troublesome questions will convince you that I am as anxious as yourself that justice be done to the U. Vol. Saloon: and, in this case, I am well aware that the best way to do it, is to make a plain statement of the facts.'