CLEVELAND, Grover. Autograph letter signed ("Grover Cleveland") as President, to Hampton L. Carson, Secretary of the Constitutional Centenniel Commission in Philadelphia, Washington, 18 August 1887.
CLEVELAND, Grover. Autograph letter signed ("Grover Cleveland") as President, to Hampton L. Carson, Secretary of the Constitutional Centenniel Commission in Philadelphia, Washington, 18 August 1887. 2 full pages, large 8vo, on Executive Mansion stationery, second leaf neatly inlaid to a protective sheet . A TESTY CLEVELAND THREATENS TO BOYCOTT PHILADELPHIA'S CELEBRATION OF THE CONSTITUTION. Cleveland had agreed to attend the Constitutional Centenniel observances in Philadelphia, but is dismayed to learn that his attendance at additional events has is expected: "Representatives from the Hibernian Society" are "seeking an interview with me...urging me to attend a dinner of their society in the afternoon of Sept. 17. Another invitation has also been sent here soliciting me to attend a banquet on the evening of the same day." Both these invitations, Cleveland points out, "are accompanied by a note from you saying that their acceptance will not interfere with the Centennial celebration exercises. When I determined to go to Philadelphia," he reminds Carson, "I supposed I was to attend the Constitutional Centennial; and I am surprised that you should aid in subjecting me to other impositions. I desire that those in charge of the exercises will furnish me in detail a programme...so that I may know precisely what they expect of me." Sarcastically, he adds "If I can be spared for a dinner in the afternoon and a banquet in the evening perhaps I can be spared the entire day." Cleveland's threat to skip the Constitutional Centennial ceremonies elicited an abject and very humble apology from Carson, now part of the Cleveland Papers at the Library of Congress.
CLEVELAND, Grover. Autograph letter signed ("Grover Cleveland") as President, to Hampton L. Carson, Secretary of the Constitutional Centenniel Commission in Philadelphia, Washington, 18 August 1887.
CLEVELAND, Grover. Autograph letter signed ("Grover Cleveland") as President, to Hampton L. Carson, Secretary of the Constitutional Centenniel Commission in Philadelphia, Washington, 18 August 1887. 2 full pages, large 8vo, on Executive Mansion stationery, second leaf neatly inlaid to a protective sheet . A TESTY CLEVELAND THREATENS TO BOYCOTT PHILADELPHIA'S CELEBRATION OF THE CONSTITUTION. Cleveland had agreed to attend the Constitutional Centenniel observances in Philadelphia, but is dismayed to learn that his attendance at additional events has is expected: "Representatives from the Hibernian Society" are "seeking an interview with me...urging me to attend a dinner of their society in the afternoon of Sept. 17. Another invitation has also been sent here soliciting me to attend a banquet on the evening of the same day." Both these invitations, Cleveland points out, "are accompanied by a note from you saying that their acceptance will not interfere with the Centennial celebration exercises. When I determined to go to Philadelphia," he reminds Carson, "I supposed I was to attend the Constitutional Centennial; and I am surprised that you should aid in subjecting me to other impositions. I desire that those in charge of the exercises will furnish me in detail a programme...so that I may know precisely what they expect of me." Sarcastically, he adds "If I can be spared for a dinner in the afternoon and a banquet in the evening perhaps I can be spared the entire day." Cleveland's threat to skip the Constitutional Centennial ceremonies elicited an abject and very humble apology from Carson, now part of the Cleveland Papers at the Library of Congress.
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