16 January 1840
Fillmore, Millard (1800-1874)
Autograph letter signed
Title: to Solomon Haven
Fillmore writes as a U.S. Representative to Haven, serving as lawyer in Buffalo, New York. Complains of the cold, writing "People here know nothing of comfort in cold weather. Their houses are all built for a southern summer, but by some mistake we have now got a northern winter." Remarks that Mitchell (possibly Representative Charles F. Mitchell, also from New York) made an exposé the previous day in the House of Representatives, and that it will be published in the following day's Intelligencer. Remarks "The day has been wholly spent in discussing abolition- All the insolent bragadocio…
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