f the
duel, as the published and accepted version was correct.

"The letter to me from Justice Field above referred to is the
only letter from Justice Field to me in which Judge Terry's
name was ever mentioned, and, with the exception of the
above-mentioned street conversation, Judge Field was never the
subject of conversation between Judge Terry and myself, from
the time I left the bench, on the 1st of January, 1857, up to
the time of Terry's death.

"As to the statement that during Terry's trouble with the
Sharon case, I offered Terry the use of Field's letter, it
results from what I have above stated--that it is a vile
falsehood, whoever may be responsible for it.

"I had no such letter, and consequently could have made no
such offer.

"San Francisco, August 21, 1889.
"S. HEYDENFELDT."

Judge Heydenfeldt subsequently addressed the following letter to Judge
Field:

"SAN FRANCISCO, _August 31, 1889_.

"MY DEAR JUDGE: I received yours of yesterday with the extract
from the Washington _Post_ of the 22d inst., containing a
copy of a letter from the late Judge Terry to the Hon. Zack
Montgomery.

"The statement in that letter of a conversation between
Terry and myself in reference to you is untrue. The only
conversation Terry and I ever had in relation to you was, as
heretofore stated, in regard to a request from you to me to
get from Terry his version of the Terry-Broderick duel, to be
used in your intended reminiscences.

"I do not see how Terry could have made such an erroneous
statement, unless, possibly, he deemed that application as
an advance made by you towards obtaining his political
friendship, and upon that built up a theory, which he moulded
into the fancy written by him in the Montgomery letter.

"In all of our correspondence, kept up from time to time
since your first removal to Washington down to the present,
no letter of yours contained a request to obtain the political
support of any one.

"I remain, dear Judge, very truly yours,

"S. HEYDENFELDT.

"Hon. STEPHEN J. FIELD,
"Palace Hotel, San Francisco."

At the hearing of the Neagle case, Justice Field was asked if he had
been informed of any statements made by Judge Terry of ill feeling
existing between them before the latter's imprisonment for contempt.
He replied:

"Y