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CLEVELAND, Grover. Autograph letter signed ("Grover Cleveland"), as former President, to L. Clarke Davis, Princeton, 14 June 1898. 3½ pages, 8vo, on personal stationery, with original autograph envelope.
A DEPRESSED EX-PRESIDENT CONFESSES: "I DON'T SEEM TO GET THE CURSED WASHINGTON TRICK OUT OF ME.". Cleveland battles post-Presidential Depression. Philadelphia lawyer Davis had invited Cleveland on a fishing trip, which the former President declines, and divulges his agonizing battle with depression: "I am afraid I would be but a poor companion just now for I was never so blue and depressed in my life. My time is all taken up and my existence made miserable by personal importunities and letters urging me to aid distress or, what is now killing, to attend public dinners and make speeches and deliver addresses on all sorts of topics and at all sorts of meetings. I don't seem to get the cursed Washington trick out of me and I expect I am not very well fortified to resist vexations. I have other perplexities besides." His only saving grace at the moment was his family, "and for the wife and dear children I am continually grateful to God." If Clarke's trip was in some remote locale Cleveland might be tempted, since "I could see in that trip a chance to be far from the people and things that annoy me....Of the scores of requests to 'do things' I have yielded in one case and agreed to preside at a meeting in New York on Feb 12th in the interest of negro education in the South. I hope to go to North Carolina for trout in March and think I ought to stick it out without another vacation till then. On the whole and as at present advised, it seems to me that I better give up the idea of going with you."
A DEPRESSED EX-PRESIDENT CONFESSES: "I DON'T SEEM TO GET THE CURSED WASHINGTON TRICK OUT OF ME.". Cleveland battles post-Presidential Depression. Philadelphia lawyer Davis had invited Cleveland on a fishing trip, which the former President declines, and divulges his agonizing battle with depression: "I am afraid I would be but a poor companion just now for I was never so blue and depressed in my life. My time is all taken up and my existence made miserable by personal importunities and letters urging me to aid distress or, what is now killing, to attend public dinners and make speeches and deliver addresses on all sorts of topics and at all sorts of meetings. I don't seem to get the cursed Washington trick out of me and I expect I am not very well fortified to resist vexations. I have other perplexities besides." His only saving grace at the moment was his family, "and for the wife and dear children I am continually grateful to God." If Clarke's trip was in some remote locale Cleveland might be tempted, since "I could see in that trip a chance to be far from the people and things that annoy me....Of the scores of requests to 'do things' I have yielded in one case and agreed to preside at a meeting in New York on Feb 12th in the interest of negro education in the South. I hope to go to North Carolina for trout in March and think I ought to stick it out without another vacation till then. On the whole and as at present advised, it seems to me that I better give up the idea of going with you."