TLS, 1897 August 18, Hotel Champlain, Clinton County, N.Y.,to John Sherman.

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TLS, 1897 August 18, Hotel Champlain, Clinton County, N.Y.,to John Sherman.

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McKinley writes to Sherman, then Secretary of State, appointing Mr. Hitchcock as Minister to Russia. He comments about the press. "I have discovered that the only security is not to talk at all."

2 p., 23 x 14.2 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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