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Cleveland: Wolf’s Book on American Jewry “Challenges Fairness and Justice, For a Class of Our Citizens to Whom They Have Not Always Been Accorded”
December 30, 1895
Autograph Letter Signed
2 pages
SMC 2235
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President Cleveland Supports Washington’s Leading Jewish Charitable Organization's “Israelites Fair” - An Affair Headed by Simon Wolf
January 23, 1886
Autograph Letter Signed
2 pages
SMC 2502
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Grover Cleveland Worries He Cannot Bring His Baby Into Recently Quarantined White House After His Inauguration
February 20, 1893
Autograph Letter Signed
3 pages
SMC 1967
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Autograph Letter Signed
3 pages
SMC 1163
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Grover Cleveland, the Only President to Be Married in the White House, Writes His Bride About Wedding
May 23, 1886
Autograph Letter Signed
4 pages
SMC 1164
Love letter from President Grover Cleveland to his secret fiance, Frances Folsom, outlining every detail of their upcoming nuptials in the White House.
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Grover Cleveland, First President to Marry in the White House, Handwrites an Invitation to His Wedding
May 28, 1886
Autograph Letter Signed
2 pages
SMC 1165
President Grover Cleveland invites his Postmaster to his wedding the following Wednesday, with a hand-written invitation.
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President Cleveland Appoints Nageeb Arbeely to Replace Anti-Semitic Selah Merrill as Consul at Jerusalem
October 15, 1885
Document Signed
1 page
SMC 1595
The wildly unpopular Consul at Jerusalem, Selah Merrill, is replaced by the Greek-ancestry-Syrian-born naturalized-American, Najeeb J. Arbeely.
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Autograph Letter Signed
2 pages
SMC 1615
Replying to Mrs. Cleveland's letter thanking him for his stirring eulogies of her husband, President William Howard Taft reiterates his genuine respect for President Grover Cleveland as a man of courage and public duty.
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Grover Cleveland Complains of an Avalanche of Unwelcome Invitations, As He Plans a Pleasure Trip Out of Town
August 18, 1887
Autograph Letter Signed
4 pages
SMC 1622
Grover Cleveland expresses his exasperation for the niceties and public appearances necessitated by being the President of the United States, and says he's as "cross as a bear."
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Grover Cleveland, Recovering From Secret Cancer Surgery, Reports He is "Getting to be Quite a Drunkard"
December 17, 1893
Autograph Letter Signed
6 pages
SMC 1970
Recovering from his secret cancer surgery aboard a yacht a few months prior, Grover Cleveland reports to his physician and dear friend that he is having "a couple of drinks of whiskey a day, with very good results; and I smoke a cigar every day too."
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Former First Lady Frances Cleveland Reports Ailing Grover Cleveland is "Breaking Up Generally"
December 4, 1901
Autograph Letter Signed
3 pages
SMC 2018
Although Grover Cleveland seems to be on the mend, with his "temperature, pulse & respiration" now normal, Frances Cleveland is still a bit distraught over her husband's slow recovery. He still has "trouble with his gut" and is perturbed that he's not gaining strength. It appears he's "breaking up generally." Cleveland would live for another seven years.
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Grover Cleveland Celebrates a Great Deception: The One Year Anniversary of His Secret Cancer Surgery
July 1, 1894
Autograph Letter Signed
4 pages
SMC 891
President Grover Cleveland writes to his friend and personal physician, Dr. Joseph Bryant, on the occasion of the one year anniversary of Cleveland's secret cancer surgery. The surgery, to remove a tumor on the president's jaw, was astonishingly performed on a yacht anchored on Long Island Sound, in order to conceal the President's condition from the public. Remarkably, the secret was kept for a quarter of a century.
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About to Marry, President Grover Cleveland Longs to Live Away from the White House "Like Other People"
December 13, 1885
Autograph Letter Signed
4 pages
SMC 1162
President Cleveland writes to his fiance Frances Folsom about many overwhelming social aspects of being in the White House, and longs to live away from it with her in a "small house" like normal people.
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