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Henry Wetherbee letter to Schuyler Colfax

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Description
In this letter to Colfax, then serving as Vice-President of the United States, Wetherbee's opinion is that "jealousy of your popularity" is the cause of the reason why newspapers are "so down on you." Wetherbee, of course, believes none of it, and would have printed a rebuttal of his own but "thought it might produce more harm than good." With printed letterhead of the Office of Macpherson & Wetherbee, Lumber Dealers.
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1873, March 7.
Call number
mssHM 47982
Creator
Wetherbee, Henry(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased from William Wreden, 1961, January 5.
Dimensions
26 cm :
Associated people
Colfax, Schuyler, (1823-1885,)
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