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- GLC#
- GLC03224
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 4 January 1874
- Author/Creator
- Spinner, Francis Elias, 1802-1890
- Title
- to C[harles]. L[afayette]. MacArthur
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 5 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Thanks him for a copy of the second series of the Breitmann Ballads since his copy keeps getting stolen. The "Hiram Irvines are largely on the increase just now, and I fear the party has not the right kind of men at the front to lead them off." Feels it is possible that Congress will enact a workable monetary policy: "what is really needed, next to the resumption of specie payments, is a currency, that will at all times adapt itself to the business wants of the country." Written as Secretary of the Treasury.
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