Horatio Greenough, Washington, DC., autograph letter signed to R. W. Griswold, 19 November 1851
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Horatio Greenough, Washington, DC., autograph letter signed to R. W. Griswold, 19 November 1851

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 · November 19, 1851

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Offers $50 to help pay any debts left by [James Fenimore] Cooper. Approves of bronze for Cooper's statue, but objects to placing it in Washington, where "there is neither respect for such objects as public property nor interest in them as works of art.

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