Autograph letter signed : Clarendon Hotel, New York, to Mrs. Bayne, 1853 Apr. 5.

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Autograph letter signed : Clarendon Hotel, New York, to Mrs. Bayne, 1853 Apr. 5.

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Written during his lecture tour of the United States, saying in part, "I received your kind letter at Washington, where I passed three weeks pleasantly enough among the great folks of the Republic ... I saw the two presidents (they came together at my lecture) and dined at the White House in the reign of the late sovereign, Mr. Fillmore. Then I went away into Virginia, crossing the Rappahanna (where you know the Esmond family had their large estates). It gave me a queer sensation to see the place, and I fancied the story was actually true for a minute or two--and that one might ride over yonder hills and come upon the old Mansion House, where the little Colonel lived with his jealous wife ... I have come away from the South not so horrified as perhaps I ought to be with slavery, which in the towns is not by any means a horrifying institution ... It is the worst economy, slavery, that can be, the clumsiest and most costly domestic and agricultural machine that was ever devised. Uncle Tom's Cabin and the tirades of the abolitionists mayn't destroy it, but common sense infallibly will before long."

1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm. + with envelope.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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