Letter from James G. Blaine (Washington, D.C.) to Joseph Medill, 1885-02-03

"At the close of the Presidential campaign you wrote me a very kind leter and have since at sundry & divers times sent me interesting numbers of the Tribune. You can well believe that I have not been in any special humor for writing about the November calamity and I may therefore have seemed careless if not incivil to my friends. I should however be very ungrateful if I should fail to acknowledge in one form--even it seems a little lalte--the years' obligations I am under to you for your prompt, earnest, eloquent and most effecient support during all the trying days of the hard fought campaign."