HORACE GREELEY - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 11/29/1864 - HFSID 1785
Price: $600.00
HORACE GREELEY
Horace Greeley sends a political autograph letter that he will
endorse Mr. Ford as a candidate for Speaker of the New York State
Assembly.
Political ALS: "Horace Greeley," 1p, 5x8. Office of The
Tribune, New York, 1864 November 29. To Hon. E. Cornell, Ithaca, New York.
In full: "It is now more than twenty years since I have spent any
considerable time at Albany, so had much to do with legislative matters. I went
up at the opening of the session of 1861 to try and beat Littlejohn but did not
succeed. I think I tried again two years thereafter with like ill-luck. I am not
sure that I shall go up this Winter. But all I know of Mr. Ford induces me to
think that he would make a good Speaker, and I now think I shall give him what
little influence I may have." HORACE GREELEY, who writes in this letter
of the "little influence" he has endorsing a candidate for Speaker of the New
York State Assembly, was probably the most influential newspaperman in the
country. Greeley, the founder and editor of the New York Tribune,
received the Liberal Republican and Democratic nominations for President in
1872, but was badly beaten in the election. He died just 24 days later,
exactly eight years to the day after he wrote this letter. EZRA CORNELL was a
major contributor to the endowment of Cornell University, named in his honor,
which was incorporated the year after this letter was written; it opened in
Ithaca in 1868. Cornell had earlier organized the Magnetic Telegraph Company and
Western Union Telegraph Company (chartered 1856), and had worked closely with
Samuel F.B. Morse on developing insulating wire on the poles used for telegraph
transmission. Irregular left edge, creased and lightly yellowed. Lightly
stained at blank bottom edge.
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