Auction Date:2010 Aug 11 @ 22:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS, one page, neatly trimmed to 5.5 x 6.5, November 11, 1902. In his new capacity as president of Princeton University, the future chief executive writes former president Grover Cleveland regarding a speaking engagement. In full: “We have been obliged to postpone the date of your lecture and if entirely convenient and agreeable to you we will say Wed. of next week; and you may set the hour. It will probably suit the classes at either 10 A.M. or 3 P.M.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds (one vertical fold passing through his name), a strip of toning at the top edge, trimmed as noted, and show-through mounting remnants at all four corners on opposing sides.
Following the end of his presidency in 1897, Cleveland established ties with Princeton,, where he became a special lecturer in public affairs and a member of the university’s board of trustees in 1901. Wilson had only recently ascended to Princeton’s presidency when he sent this cordial note—but such niceties would eventually come to an end as a disagreement over the site of a new graduate school strained their relationship. Reforms implemented by Wilson to enhance the school’s academic standing also troubled Cleveland and other school officials. An unusual educational association between two US presidents.
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