- GLC#
- GLC02925.12-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 7 April 1860
- Author/Creator
- English, James Edward, 1812-1890
- Title
- to Henry Champion Deming
- Place Written
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Responds to a previous letter from Deming, Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, in which Deming requested a donation to honor Alfred Edmund Burr, Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee. Expresses enthusiasm in providing a testimonial for Burr "for the great personal sacrifice he has made in behalf of our great National party, he has labored both in season, and out of season, with a self sacrificing zeal for the good of our party and Country ... " English served as a U.S. congressman (1861-1864) and senator (1875-1876), and as governor of Connecticut (1867-1869 and 1870-1871). Deming was mayor of Hartford (1854-1858 and 1860-1862
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