Box 1A

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"You can afford to lose your weekly subscription list, since your daily pays; our case is different. I think we must hold on to our subscribers, even at a loss, and hope for better times."

Scope and Contents "It was never probable that I should 'go into the cabinet.' I know no person of influence who urged it. I have been talked of for Minister to England, but the suggestion did not originate with my friends, and I hever heard that Gen. Grant gave it the least countenance. ... But when I said you should move here, I did not mean that you should do so off-hand. I meant that before you take any decided steps you shoujld look the ground all over, and see what could be done here, as well as in...

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Two envelopes, neither of which could confidently be associated with a letter. One is postmarked "New York. Jun 15", the other was postmarked "New York ...8" but most of the postmark was lost when the postage stamp was removed. Both envelopes are inscribed "Greeley"

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"I was very sorry to leave the Treasury Department ... But the action of the President made it impossible to remain."

Scope and Contents "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...

Scope and Contents "The correspondence (of which my son Walter spoke to you) was with the Attorney General of Nova Scotia. I did not retain copies of my letters--there were several exchanges of notes--because he asked as a preliminary that the matter should be considered entirely personal & confidential. I think he is strongly inclined to annexation & somewhat under suspicition by the 'Tupper' crowd. ... I frankly wrote the General that I thought it would [?] be exceedingly difficult to unite the...

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"Your letter to me at Florence last winter crossed mine in which I declined to be a candidate for renomination. I made up my mind when I was writing my letter that I should refrain from every form of political discussion until the candidate for President should be nominated. I did not agree with your views on the tariff but I was entirely unwilling to enter upon any form of contention on the subject either with you or your honored husband."

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"I want an opportunity to talk with you a few minutes about Cuba. When and where can I call on you, or can you drop into the War Department some morning?"

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"With this I send a categorical answer to your question, & by mail as requested. I have had much inquiry of late from some whose motives I could not wholly understand and so have kept my counsel. With you I have no reserve, for I know your friendly motive, & am more than gratified to trust the judgment and suggestion of one I esteem as I do you."

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"Your inquiry just received this evening, and I answer at once: I will agree not to decline a nomination in advance, at least until the state convention meets."

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"I am very much obliged to you indeed for sending me 'The note book of a neutral.' I am not going to confine my reading to the few pages, to which you refer me, but shall read the whole book."

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This letter is replaced by a photocopy. The original letter is in series IX-63, box 1, folder 11: "Mrs. Grant and my self will be please [sic] to have a visit of a week from Mrs. Medill, one of the daughters and yourself, commencing the fifth Monday in Jan.y if you can give us the time. ... I am glad ot hear that Chicago is fast recovering from the effects of the fire."

Scope and Contents From the File: This letter is replaced by a photocopy. The original letter is in series IX-63, box 1, folder 12: "Your letter of the 21st ult. tendering your resignation as a member of the Advisory Board on Civil Service was duly received. No action has been taken in the matter here to fore because I do not care to act without consulting the other members first. ... It is my intention that Civil Service reform shall have a fair trial. The great defect in the past custom is that Executive patronage had come...

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This letter is replaced by a photocopy. The original letter is in series IX-63, box 1, folder 14: "If Mrs. & the Misses Medill of Chicago are at your house will you be kind enough to invite them to come down tomorrow & stop over Sunday with us"

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson Papers consist chiefly of Medill, McCormick and Patterson family correspondence, Joseph Medill business and political letters, Chicago Tribune historical material, and a collection of letters of Joseph Medill and others to and from important people. The papers cover the years 1846-1910, approximately, with most of the material falling in the 1850-1899 period. The name of the collection reflects its provenance, not its...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson Papers consist chiefly of Medill, McCormick and Patterson family correspondence, Joseph Medill business and political letters, Chicago Tribune historical material, and a collection of letters of Joseph Medill and others to and from important people. The papers cover the years 1846-1910, approximately, with most of the material falling in the 1850-1899 period. The name of the collection reflects its provenance, not its...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson Papers consist chiefly of Medill, McCormick and Patterson family correspondence, Joseph Medill business and political letters, Chicago Tribune historical material, and a collection of letters of Joseph Medill and others to and from important people. The papers cover the years 1846-1910, approximately, with most of the material falling in the 1850-1899 period. The name of the collection reflects its provenance, not its...

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"Saturday I spent two hours with Governor [William] McKinley at his home in Canton. We talked over the whole situation and I decided it best to hand him your letter which he read and re-read. 'What can I say to Mr. Medill from you' said I to him. 'Say to Mr. Medill for me that I am as sound on the money qustion as you are.'"

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Chiefly concerning the first two of the Lincoln-Douglas debates (at Ottawa, Ill., 1858-08-21, and Freeport, Ill., 1858-08-27). As told here, Lincoln's answer to Douglas' questions about slavery (answers with which Medill did not agree) earned Douglas re-election to the Senate in 1858, but lost him the Presidency in 1860.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson Papers consist chiefly of Medill, McCormick and Patterson family correspondence, Joseph Medill business and political letters, Chicago Tribune historical material, and a collection of letters of Joseph Medill and others to and from important people. The papers cover the years 1846-1910, approximately, with most of the material falling in the 1850-1899 period. The name of the collection reflects its provenance, not its...