"All I can send to you is some copies of the Philadelphia Club preparation, as I cannot get time to draw out in detail what I have suggested for my own and other counties. You will do that better than I can. I am called.
"In great haste,
"Most truly yours,
"Silas Wright."
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Henrietta was the sister of Samuel J. to whom, on the fifth of the month preceding the date of this letter, for the first and only occasion in his life he opened his mind on the subject of matrimony, a topic at that time of serious concern to her. See Bigelow's Life of Tilden, Vol. I., p. 80. Before the expiration of the year of which this letter bears date, she died. The brother when he wrote this letter was living with an aunt who kept a boarding-house at what was then the upper part of Broadway.
[2] Proprietor of the Hartford Times at the date and United States Senator from Connecticut.
[3] Lewis Gaylord Clark.
[4] The place of attorney for the City and County of New York for which this address to the Democratic members of the Common Council, was the only office Mr. Tilden ever held by appointment. He held it but about one year, during which time he docketed 123 judgments for violations of city ordinances.
[5] This letter first appeared in print in the Life of Tilden, Vol. I., p. 102.
[6] The paper here referred to was the New York Daily News. For an account of Tilden's connection with its establishment and management, see Life of Tilden, Vol. I., p. 108.
[7] The triumph of the Native American party.