Letters to Glen Walton Blodgett, 1928-1931.

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Letters to Glen Walton Blodgett, 1928-1931.

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Sherman writes to Blodgett concerning genuine signatures of James G. Blaine who always obliged autograph seekers; other autographs he has available; the presidential election of 1928; the "new Washington with the Jew and negro yeast;" his biography of Blaine and the high price charged by the publisher; brief memories of Walt Whitman in Washington, John S. Mosby as consul at Hong Kong, Nathaniel Hawthorne in Liverpool and Julian Hawthorne's "wild cat mining scheme"; 1930 Maine Senatorial race candidates Ralph Owen Brewster and Wallace Humphrey White, Jr.; tirades against Herbert Hoover; and his health.

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