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A Superb Kendall ALS To E. S. Sanford Concerning A Reception For Samuel Morse

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A Superb Kendall ALS To E. S. Sanford Concerning A Reception For Samuel Morse
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Amos Kendall (1789 - 1869 ) An American politician who served as U.S. Postmaster General under Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Many historians regard Kendall as the intellectual force behind Andrew Jackson's presidential administration, and an influential figure in the transformation of America from an agrarian republic to a capitalist democracy. In 1857, Kendall's philanthropy founded the school in Washington, D.C. that later expanded and became Gallaudet University for the deaf. ALS. 1 page. Washington May 30th 1858. To Col. E. S. Sanford; “My dear Sir, I received yesterday your letter of the 28th inst, and in reply have to say that although I shrink from public displays in general it would give me pleasure to join in a welcome to Prof Morse With you in New York, [and] appropriately the fixing upon the programme of the reception should one be given , and although I am not felicitous in making speeches especially of a complimentary character, I will endeavor in my plain way to perform that on any other part of the drams which you may assign to me. With kind remembrance.Your friend, Amos Kendall.