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Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 to Solomon Haven

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01088 Author/Creator: Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: January 16, 1840 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket Height: 25.2 cm, Width: 20.3 cm Order a Copy

Fillmore writes as a U.S. Representative to Haven, serving as lawyer in Buffalo, New York. He 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. He 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, Millard, 1800-1874
Haven, Solomon G. (Solomon George), 1810-1861
Mitchell, Charles F., 1808-1865

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