Mosby, John S., 1833-1916 to Chinn

GLC07347

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GLC#
GLC07347
Type
Letters
Date
17 March 1909
Author/Creator
Mosby, John S., 1833-1916
Title
to Chinn
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 26.8 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
Primary time period
Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Sub-Era
The Politics of Reform

Written on Department of Justice stationery. Orders Chinn to go to the Gazette Office the following day and obtain fifteen copies for which Mosby previously paid. Declares, "I have no objection to anybody knowing that I am the author but I made the piece anonymous because I disliked the publicity of being in a controversy with such a creature as Binns, & (2) I thought it wd be more effective if I wrote in the third person... Two hundred years from now Binns will be riding around Fairfax begging somebody to kill him... Hereafter Binns should be known as the Wandering Jew. The brand of infamy & the curse of immortality rests upon him."

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