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1869 - Denver, J. W. Noting the Presidential Change :

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1869 - Denver, J. W. Noting the Presidential Change :
'Letter from Your Own Will to My Dear Wife" describing the last days of Andrew Johnson's Presidency and the incoming of Ulysses S. Grant's administration. "Will" tells his wife he thinks people will be disappointed with Grant's inaugural address - which has already been published in the newspapers. "Hardly up to the standards of a state paper," says Will. It "is not what I expected of him, it is by no manner of means equal in style, form or elegance of expression to the philippic [sic] Johnson." Will continues, "if [Grant] will only act better than Johnson we can forget that he wrote worse." An entertaining letter for those who delight in and collect Presidential history! 4 pgs. Very readable, some tears on the bottom of the last page.