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

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00669 Author/Creator: Spinner, Francis Elias, 1802-1890 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: November 16, 1865 Pagination: 4 p. : docket ; Height: 19.7 cm, Width: 16.5 cm Order a Copy

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.

Odell, Moses Fowler, 1818-1866
Spinner, Francis Elias, 1802-1890
King, Preston, 1806-1865

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