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Buffalo, Nov. 8.
Friend Reid:
As per my telegram to you, I am confined at home, to-day, giving the weight of my experience to the care of our new baby, (mother & child doing well,) but I have instructed our political man to send you the election returns.1
By this mail I send a photograph & autograph to you, & a large one & a small one to ‸for‸ your friend,2 in the same package.
With all good wishes
Samℓ. L. Clemens.
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
The corrupt money power of Tammany has again overcome us in the
State, notwithstanding a material reduction made in the former
frauds of the metropolis. This time the “rural
districts,” as they term the outside State in New York
city, appears to be wholly responsible for our defeat. General
Apathy, in fact, has had too extensively the command of the
Republican forces. In this county we have lost our Congressman without a doubt, . . .
The whole county ticket, in fact, is gone, and we save nothing from
the wreck. (Larned 1870 [bib11952]) And on 11 November he informed Express readers: “It is in the State of New York,
alone, that the Republican party retreats from a disastrous field, with
broken and disordered columns” (Larned 1870 [bib11953]).
Source text(s):Previous publication:
L4, 227–228.
Provenance:The Whitelaw Reid Papers (part of the Papers of the Reid Family) were donated
to DLC between 1953 and 1957 by Helen Rogers Reid (Mrs. Ogden Mills
Reid).
Emendations and textual notes:
Yr • [possibly ‘Yrs’]
