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Collection Reference Number GLC03209.25
From Archive Folder Archive of correspondence relating to the Blair family, including letters of Roger B. Taney, Jackson, Welles 
Title Silas Wright to Francis P. Blair & John C. Rives apologizing for a remark and a late payment
Date 23 April 1835
Author Wright, Silas (1795-1847)  
Recipient Blair, Francis Preston  Rives, John C. (John Cook)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Apologizing for remark meant in jest and for a late payment.
Subjects Humor and Satire  Finance  Debt  
People Wright, Silas (1795-1847)  Blair, Francis Preston (1791-1876)  Rives, John C. (John Cook) (1795-1864)  
Place written Canton, New York
Theme Banking & Economics
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information Silas Wright was a New York Senator, and later governor. Francis P. Blair was the publisher of the Globe, the official paper of the Democratic party for fifteen years. Rives founded the Globe along with Blair, and was its proprietor.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859