CLEVELAND, Grover. The Public Papers of Grover Cleveland. Twenty-Second President of the United States, March 4, 1885 to March 4, 1889. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. 2 o. Original publisher's blind-decorated brown cloth FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed (between his first and second terms) in ink on blank fly-leaf: "Hon Erastus Corning from Grover Cleveland May 1, 1892." The recipient is a son and namesake of Erastus Corning (1794-1872) the legendary industrialist, financier, first president of the New York Central railroad, rival of Cornelius Vanderbilt and a die-hard Democrat. Contents run from Cleveland's acceptance of his nomination, his inaugural address, proclamations on the deaths of U.S. Grant, George B. McClellan, messages on Chinese immigration, the acceptance of the "colossal statue of Liberty Enlightening the World," and hundreds of vetos of pension applications from Civil War veterans and their widows.
CLEVELAND, Grover. The Public Papers of Grover Cleveland. Twenty-Second President of the United States, March 4, 1885 to March 4, 1889. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. 2 o. Original publisher's blind-decorated brown cloth FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed (between his first and second terms) in ink on blank fly-leaf: "Hon Erastus Corning from Grover Cleveland May 1, 1892." The recipient is a son and namesake of Erastus Corning (1794-1872) the legendary industrialist, financier, first president of the New York Central railroad, rival of Cornelius Vanderbilt and a die-hard Democrat. Contents run from Cleveland's acceptance of his nomination, his inaugural address, proclamations on the deaths of U.S. Grant, George B. McClellan, messages on Chinese immigration, the acceptance of the "colossal statue of Liberty Enlightening the World," and hundreds of vetos of pension applications from Civil War veterans and their widows.
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