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Title: Intimate recollections of Joseph Jefferson
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Jefferson, Eugâenie Paul
Subjects: Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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youwould probably accompany me. Capt. Evans saw one ofthe members of the club whose marshes we shot over, andhe invited us again. I hear to-day that McKenzie has a fine big launch whichwill be of use to us. Yours truly,Grover Cleveland. Westland,Princeton, New Jersey,Oct. 25th, 1897. Dear Charley: I am not sure that this will reach you, as I am notcertain of your present address, but I want to remind youof our ducking trip in December. We expect to start about the 9th or 10th of Decem-ber, and spend about ten days away. Including yourself therewill be five or six in the party, and you will know nearlyall, if not all of them. Gen. McCook, the present Cham-berlain of New York, will go, and the rest will be the samepersons, I think, who made up the other excursions whenyou were along. I do not think there will be anything in-terfere with my going. At any rate, I shall write to Cap-tain Evans to-day, telling him I shall be prepared to start,unless something altogether unexpected presents.
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JOSEPH JEFFERSON 263 He has charge of the arrangements, arid will prepareearly for our comfort in getting the camp fixed, etc. I shall tell him you will go, and if you see any doubtabout it I wish you would let me know as soon as possi-ble. Gen. McCook and you can come together to the placeof meeting, or you can come here alone and pick me up, ifyou prefer it. Please let me hear from you. Yours sincerely,Grover Cleveland. Chas. B. Jefferson, Esq. Princeton,Apr. 22, 1906. Dear Charley: Your letter is at hand. A while ago I had some cor-respondence with about a monument to your father. . . . I wrote him that in my opinion The Players or someagency of that kind closely related to your father ought totake the lead, and I finally plainly told him I must declineparticipation in his undertaking. Of course you will understand that it is my love foryour father that makes me unwilling to be related to a planof doing honour to his memory which is not in every waypromising of success arid worthy

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