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sylvania, he will advise you of it.
Very truly yours,
“E.W. Halford,
“Private Secretary.”
The following was received by General Hastings, from the Vice-President:
“Ellerslie, Rhinecliff on Hudson,
“June 10th, 1889.
“My Dear General: - On my return to my country home, I find that my little girls, from eight to fourteen years of age, have been hard at work since the terrible disaster at Johnstown, in making articles of clothing for the poor homeless children who have survived the recent floods in your State. I am forwarding today by the American Express Company, free of charge, a hundred and twenty-seven articles of wearing apparel, as per list enclosed, made by their own hands, or purchased with their own money, with some of their dresses. My children will feel greatly obliged if you will cause the clothing to be distributed among the little sufferers by the recent calamity, for whom they feel the deepest sympathy, I am, dear General, very faithfully yours,
“Levi P. Morton.”
Here is a third letter, received by Governor Beaver from the aged statesman who had so long been a dominant figure in the politics and business of the State, and who, not long after
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