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GARFIELD, LUCRETIA, First Lady. Autograph letter signed ("Lucretia R. Garfield") to J.H. Rhodes of Cleveland, Ohio; Washington, D.C., 14 July 1881. 1 3/4 pages, 8vo, 214 x 130mm. (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.), on Executive Mansion stationery, written on pages one and three of a four-page sheet, with original envelope addressed in Mrs. Garfield's hand. In fine condition.
TWELVE DAYS AFTER HIS SHOOTING, THE FIRST LADY REPORTS THAT GARFIELD'S "WEAKNESS IF SO GREAT THAT DID HE KNOW A TITHE OF ALL THAT IS SAID AND FELT BY HIS FRIENDS... HE WOULD BE ENTIRELY OVERCOME AND HIS LIFE PUT IN JEOPARDY"
Just twelve days after the assassination attempt on President James A. Garfield's life, Lucretia Garfield responds to an apparent condolence letter from an old friend. "Your letter with all its precious words of reminiscence and of tender sympathy is received and treasured in my heart. As soon as our dear good General is able I will read it to him, or let him read it. [N]ow we have to be most careful of all our words to him. His weakness is so great that did he know a tithe of all that is said and felt by his friends and by the people of this great nation, he would be entirely overcome and his life put in jeopardy..."
TWELVE DAYS AFTER HIS SHOOTING, THE FIRST LADY REPORTS THAT GARFIELD'S "WEAKNESS IF SO GREAT THAT DID HE KNOW A TITHE OF ALL THAT IS SAID AND FELT BY HIS FRIENDS... HE WOULD BE ENTIRELY OVERCOME AND HIS LIFE PUT IN JEOPARDY"
Just twelve days after the assassination attempt on President James A. Garfield's life, Lucretia Garfield responds to an apparent condolence letter from an old friend. "Your letter with all its precious words of reminiscence and of tender sympathy is received and treasured in my heart. As soon as our dear good General is able I will read it to him, or let him read it. [N]ow we have to be most careful of all our words to him. His weakness is so great that did he know a tithe of all that is said and felt by his friends and by the people of this great nation, he would be entirely overcome and his life put in jeopardy..."