MANY DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS.
Springfield, Mass., December 24, 1889.
The Honorable, the Mayor:
Springfield shares the sorrow of her sister city. The death of such a man as Henry Woodfin Grady is a national loss.
Edward S. Bradford, Mayor.
New York, December 24, 1889.
To Mrs. Henry Grady:
The New York Southern Society, profoundly affected by a sense of the public loss sustained in the death of your distinguished husband, offer you their heartfelt sympathy in the great affliction you have suffered.
J. H. Parker, Vice-President.
New York, December 23, 1889.
Governor Rufus B. Bullock:
Your dispatch is received with sincere sorrow. Thousands of our citizens recognized in Mr. Grady a man worthy of the highest respect and esteem, and will regard his untimely death a national calamity.
Alonzo B. Cornell.
New York, December 24, 1889.
Evan Howell:
Please give my earnest sympathy to Mrs. Grady. The profession has lost one of its three or four foremost members, and the country a true patriot.
Ballard Smith.
- Transcriber’s Notes:
- Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
- Typographical errors were silently corrected.
- Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.