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LS as president, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 8 x 9.75, rare Executive Mansion mourning stationery, January 18, 1882. Letter to newspaper reporter and publisher Stilson Hutchins, dated less than four months after the death of President James A. Garfield, in full: “I regret that other duties will prevent me from accepting your kind invitation to attend the meeting at Willards Hall tonight, to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the birthday of Daniel Webster, and to procure a statue of him for our city; but I shall take great pleasure in otherwise promoting the purpose of your meeting. It is but tardy justice that now and here, where Webster's eternal fame was won, we should speedily erect his counterpart in enduring bronze, that those who follow us should know the man as we saw him. And it is especially appropriate that he should be thus honored in this city, beautified beyond all others by monuments to those who devoted their lives to preserve ‘Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.’” In fine condition. The Daniel Webster Memorial is a monument in Washington, D.C., and was given to the United States government by this letter’s recipient, Stilson Hutchins, who founded The Washington Post newspaper five years earlier in 1877.
From the Estate of Malcolm S. Forbes.
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