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CLEVELAND, Grover. Autograph letter signed ("Grover Cleveland") to Bradley H. Phillips, Buzzards Bay, Mass., 2 August 1891. 3 pages, 8vo, personal stationery.
CLEVELAND'S BLEAK ADVICE FOR A YOUNG LAWYER: "NEW YORK IS QUITE A DISCOURAGING FIELD FOR A YOUNG LAWYER WHO HAS NO FRIENDS..."
During the four-year interregnum between his first and second terms in office, Cleveland found a professional home with the New York law firm of Bangs, Stetson, Tracy and MacVeagh. Here he disappoints a young applicant: "I would be glad to help you if I could. But I have nothing to do with the details or management of the law office with which I am connected and have no hand in employing clerks or anything of that kind. Nor am I in such relations with any of the active lawyers in New York as to enable me to be of service to you. I know in a general way that the firm I am with often have applications for clerkships which they are obliged to decline, and I have an idea that New York is quite a discouraging field for a young lawyer who has no friends to give him business in the start. But you did not apply to me for my advice and I don't know that I am competent to give it if you had asked it. I believe you have the right spirit and your testimonials are certainly good. I am really sorry that I cannot put you in the way of advancement." Bangs, Stetson was a place for Cleveland to bide his time before returning to the political fray. He did, however, argue one case before the U. S. Supreme Court. But by 1890 he was already setting his sights on a return to the White House.
CLEVELAND'S BLEAK ADVICE FOR A YOUNG LAWYER: "NEW YORK IS QUITE A DISCOURAGING FIELD FOR A YOUNG LAWYER WHO HAS NO FRIENDS..."
During the four-year interregnum between his first and second terms in office, Cleveland found a professional home with the New York law firm of Bangs, Stetson, Tracy and MacVeagh. Here he disappoints a young applicant: "I would be glad to help you if I could. But I have nothing to do with the details or management of the law office with which I am connected and have no hand in employing clerks or anything of that kind. Nor am I in such relations with any of the active lawyers in New York as to enable me to be of service to you. I know in a general way that the firm I am with often have applications for clerkships which they are obliged to decline, and I have an idea that New York is quite a discouraging field for a young lawyer who has no friends to give him business in the start. But you did not apply to me for my advice and I don't know that I am competent to give it if you had asked it. I believe you have the right spirit and your testimonials are certainly good. I am really sorry that I cannot put you in the way of advancement." Bangs, Stetson was a place for Cleveland to bide his time before returning to the political fray. He did, however, argue one case before the U. S. Supreme Court. But by 1890 he was already setting his sights on a return to the White House.