Fillmore, Millard (1800-1874) to Solomon Haven
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01088 Author/Creator: Fillmore, Millard (1800-1874) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 16 January 1840 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket ; 25.2 x 20.3 cm. Order a Copy
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 of the south has cooled down and they 'roar you as gently as any sucking dove' " (quote from "A Midsummer Night's Dream").
Fillmore was a U.S. Representative from New York 1833-1834 and 1837-1842. He was President of the United States 1850-1853. Haven was Mayor of Buffalo, New York 1846-1847 and was a U.S. Representative 1851-1856.
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