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2016.071.0001Scope and Content
This letter was found in a book, "Choise reading" by R.I Fulton.
The letter content is copied below.
" 107 N.Upper St. City
Mrs. McDowell,
My Dear Madame;
Mrs Ballard kindly took me out to your place yesterday, and I was very sorry not to have the pleasure of meeting you. I wanted to ask you in regard to one of Mr. Clays speeches, a selection from which is found in this volume of "Choice readings" which book you will please do me the honor to accept.
I have not yet learned from which of his public adresses it was taken. The extract was taken from another book, you will find it on page 298.
It is one of my favorite. The sentiment I believe to be equally as patriotic as his epitaph, and I have been doing what I could to induce the young men in my classes in oratory to come into possession of, as of least cultivate, this mist and commendable and horic spirit, I can now appreciate his reference to ASHLAND in the last paragraph. I am sure my brother will be very grateful to you for the pot of ivy you have so kindly prepared for him, and of which he knows nothing as yet. I shall take pleasure in carrying it to him and he will preserve it religiously for he is no less an admirer of Mr. Clay than I am.
yours very respectfuly,
Thomas C.Trueblood,
Ann Arbor,
Mich.