Letter from Elizur Wright to Samuel Downer regarding his remarks on the reunion

Letter from Elizur Wright to Samuel Downer regarding his remarks on the reunion

In this letter, written on Elizur Wright, Consulting Actuary letterhead, Elizur Wright explains to Samuel Downer that he cannot send any remarks prepared for the reunion of the Free Soil Party because he did not intend to make any. He states that the only reason he published his opinion in the Transcript was because a good friend of his, Clement, persuaded him to do so.

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1877 August 13

Hingham Public Library

ELIZUR WRIGHT,

CONSULTING ACTUARY,

Room 51,

New England Life Ins. Building

POST OFFICE SQUARE.

P. O. Box 123  107                                                              

Boston, Aug. 15, 1877

My dear Mr. Downer,

I cannot send you any remarks I prepared to make at the happy reunion we owe to your hospitality, because I did not propose to make any.  I only made the remarks I did in the Transcript of Monday, because my good young friend Clement talked me into it.

                                Yours truly

                                Elizur Wright

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