Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 to Mrs. Henry Slocum

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GLC#
GLC08113.01-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
February 9, 1889
Author/Creator
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Title
to Mrs. Henry Slocum
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
The Gilded Age

Thanking her for flowers sent on his 69th birthday: "If I can worry through another year...time with his scythe... may make a deep swath, but cannot cheat me of seventy years on this insignificant globe with a fair measure of life's pleasures and cares and responsibilities."

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