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Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) to T. N. Parmelee

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03000 Author/Creator: Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1872/05/19 Pagination: 2 p. 21 x 13 cm Order a Copy

Written on Herald Tribune stationery to Parmelee, an attorney in New Haven, Connecticut. Marked "private." Salutation reads: "Friend Parmelee." Speaks of the impossibility of a Democrat being elected president in 1872. Notes a Democrat being elected is as unlikely as Parmelee offering presidential candidate and feminist George Francis Train $10,000 to take the vice presidential nominee for the Democratic party.

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Parmelee, T.N., fl. 1872
Train, George Francis, fl. 1782

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