CLEVELAND, GROVER, President . Letter signed ("Grover Cleveland") as President TO GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, Washington, D.C., 31 July 1885. 1 page, 4to, Executive Mansion stationery . CLEVELAND SEEKS PALL-BEARERS FOR THE FUNERAL OF ULYSSES S. GRANT The death from cancer of Ulysses S. Grant marked one of the greatest occasions of public mourning by the nation since the funeral, twenty years earlier, of President Lincoln. The President here writes to Boutwell (1818-1905) of Massachusetts, who had served from 1869 to 1873 as Grant's Secretary of the Treasury and had ordered the sale of Federal gold reserves when Gould and Fisk had attempted to corner the gold market (Black Friday, 24 September 1869). In subsequent years Boutwell had served in the Senate. Cleveland writes: "Having been requested by Mrs. Grant to name the pall-bearers...I have designated you as one of the number." On August 8, 1885, Grant's two and a half mile funeral procession wound slowly from New York's City Hall to his tomb on Riverside Drive. Pallbearers included former colleagues in arms (Philip Sheridan, W.T. Sherman), former enemies (Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner and Joseph E. Johnston), plus Boutwell and others close to the late President. Cleveland's virtually identical invitation to George Childs was sold in 1988 (sale, Sotheby's, 16 April 1988, lot 57, $3,000).
CLEVELAND, GROVER, President . Letter signed ("Grover Cleveland") as President TO GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, Washington, D.C., 31 July 1885. 1 page, 4to, Executive Mansion stationery . CLEVELAND SEEKS PALL-BEARERS FOR THE FUNERAL OF ULYSSES S. GRANT The death from cancer of Ulysses S. Grant marked one of the greatest occasions of public mourning by the nation since the funeral, twenty years earlier, of President Lincoln. The President here writes to Boutwell (1818-1905) of Massachusetts, who had served from 1869 to 1873 as Grant's Secretary of the Treasury and had ordered the sale of Federal gold reserves when Gould and Fisk had attempted to corner the gold market (Black Friday, 24 September 1869). In subsequent years Boutwell had served in the Senate. Cleveland writes: "Having been requested by Mrs. Grant to name the pall-bearers...I have designated you as one of the number." On August 8, 1885, Grant's two and a half mile funeral procession wound slowly from New York's City Hall to his tomb on Riverside Drive. Pallbearers included former colleagues in arms (Philip Sheridan, W.T. Sherman), former enemies (Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner and Joseph E. Johnston), plus Boutwell and others close to the late President. Cleveland's virtually identical invitation to George Childs was sold in 1988 (sale, Sotheby's, 16 April 1988, lot 57, $3,000).
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