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HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY, President. Autograph letter signed ("W.H. Harrison") to the "Committee of the Phrena Kosmian Society of the Pennsylvania College" at Gettysburg; North Bend, 13 January 1837. One page, 4to, integral address leaf with panel in Harrison's hand, (neatly inlaid, seal hole repaired), a few light stains along left-hand edge.
A DEFEATED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
Only weeks after losing the 1836 Presidential election to Martin Van Buren, the Democrat Party candidate, Harrison writes graciously to the students of a Gettysburg College association. Harrison signs himself "Your fellow citizen, W.H. Harrison" at the end. "I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter...informing me that I had been elected an honorary member of the Phrena Kosmian Society of the Pennsylvania College of Gettysburg. I beg you, Gentlemen, to present my thanks to the Society for this evidence of their regard for me and to accept for yourselves my grateful acknowledgements for the favourable manner in which you have been pleased to speak of my public services." Harrison closes by tendering his "best wishes for the prosperity of the Institution to which you belong and that of the Association in which...I have had the honour to be enrolled as well as for your individual happiness...." Three years later, Harrison was agiain the Whig Party's nominee for President, against the incumbent Van Buren. On that occasion, Harrison was elected President.
A DEFEATED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
Only weeks after losing the 1836 Presidential election to Martin Van Buren, the Democrat Party candidate, Harrison writes graciously to the students of a Gettysburg College association. Harrison signs himself "Your fellow citizen, W.H. Harrison" at the end. "I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter...informing me that I had been elected an honorary member of the Phrena Kosmian Society of the Pennsylvania College of Gettysburg. I beg you, Gentlemen, to present my thanks to the Society for this evidence of their regard for me and to accept for yourselves my grateful acknowledgements for the favourable manner in which you have been pleased to speak of my public services." Harrison closes by tendering his "best wishes for the prosperity of the Institution to which you belong and that of the Association in which...I have had the honour to be enrolled as well as for your individual happiness...." Three years later, Harrison was agiain the Whig Party's nominee for President, against the incumbent Van Buren. On that occasion, Harrison was elected President.