Spinner, Francis Elias, 1802-1890 to Moses Fowler Odell

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GLC00669
GLC#
GLC00669
Type
Letters
Date
November 16, 1865
Author/Creator
Spinner, Francis Elias, 1802-1890
Title
to Moses Fowler Odell
Pagination
4 p. : docket ; Height: 19.7 cm, Width: 16.5 cm
Language
English
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Francis Elias Spinner, United States Treasurer, responds to a telegraph and a letter from Odell, a former United States Representative from New York. He laments the suicide of Preston King, stating: "While his heart was overflowing with human kindness toward all men, he was rigidly just. No consideration of comfort or interest to himself or the warmest friendship for others, could for a moment sway him from the pursuit if what he believed to be right." Letter written on Treasury Department stationery. Docketed on the upper right corner of the last page.

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