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| Lot # 30 PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 11/08/1904 - Document 17488 |
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GROVER CLEVELAND
The former President prepares for a speech.
ALS: "Grover Cleveland", 1¼p, 5x6½, front and verso. Princeton (New
Jersey), (Tuesday) 1904 November 8. To Nathaniel Myers, Esq. In full:
"May I make a very little suggestion to you? I would like to have on the
platform or at the place from which I am expected to speak on Friday a reading
stand high enough for to enable me to reach from a manuscript when
laid upon it - it of course should be higher than a table. Though what I shall
have to say will be brief, I think I ought to read it, and desire to do so with
as little awkwardness as possible." As the only living former President
(from 1901 to his death in 1908), Cleveland was much in demand as a speaker. He
was 5 foot 11 with a short neck, weighed 260 pounds and was 67 when he wrote
this letter. He had settled in Princeton upon leaving the White House (for the
second time). Cleveland was a trustee of Princeton University in 1901 and
gave occasional lectures to the students. The year after he wrote this
letter, he became a trustee on a board to reorganize the Equitable Life
Assurance Society. Tape remnants on blank integral leaf. Fine
condition.
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