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Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) to Edmund C. Stedman

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05603.01.09 Author/Creator: Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 5 February 1870 Pagination: 1 p. ; 20 x 25 cm. Order a Copy

Discusses someone not being paid. Largely illegible. On stationary from the Union League Club, New York. Recipient is likely Edmund Clarence Stedman, a poet and journalist who worked with Greeley at the Tribune.

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908

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