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ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.75 x 7.75, June 9, 1882. Handwritten letter to French politician Leon Gambetta, who had briefly served as prime minister from November 1881 to January 1882. In full: "I take the liberty, and have the pleasure, to present to you my friend, Mr. Emory A. Storrs, a distinguished jurist of this country, who visits Europe this summer on a short vacation. Mr. Storrs will esteem it a great favor to make the acquaintance of one who has done so much for free government, and whose public acts he has watched with so much interest. I present Mr. Storrs wish the assurance that you will find him an able and agreeable advocate of the same principles in his own country that you advocate in yours." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original transmittal envelope, addressed in Grant's hand to "The Honorable Leon Gambetta."
Grant had visited with many world leaders during his 1877–1879 world tour, as discussed in Ron Chernow's 2017 biography. Writes Chernow: 'The man who most impressed him was the Republican leader Léon Gambetta, interior minister during the Franco-Prussian War, who had escaped from Paris by balloon. Grant saw Gambetta as a spotless patriot and one of the premier European statesmen, occupying the same rarefied realm as Gladstone.'
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