GREELEY, Horace, journalist. ALS ("Horace Greeley") to E. J. Galvin, Esq., dated 25 October 1857. 1 page, 8o, 113 x 177 mm. (4½ x 7 inches). Greeley was founder of the New Yorker (weekly) which merged into the New York Tribune. This brief letter mentions the Tribune and "migration from the cities to the country." -- ALS ("H. G.") to Samuel Wilkinson, Esq., dated 21 January 1863. 2 pp. recto and verso, 8o, 128 x 203 mm. (5 x 8 inches). An angry letter debating economics. The fiery conclusion responds to the editorial treatment of Lincoln in the Tribune: "Old Abe's message which you so contradictorily abused." (2)

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GREELEY, Horace, journalist. ALS ("Horace Greeley") to E. J. Galvin, Esq., dated 25 October 1857. 1 page, 8o, 113 x 177 mm. (4½ x 7 inches). Greeley was founder of the New Yorker (weekly) which merged into the New York Tribune. This brief letter mentions the Tribune and "migration from the cities to the country." -- ALS ("H. G.") to Samuel Wilkinson, Esq., dated 21 January 1863. 2 pp. recto and verso, 8o, 128 x 203 mm. (5 x 8 inches). An angry letter debating economics. The fiery conclusion responds to the editorial treatment of Lincoln in the Tribune: "Old Abe's message which you so contradictorily abused." (2)

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