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.