Sunday, September 6, 2015

Count Adam Gurowski to James S. Pike, August 31, 1860

Morrisania, August 31, 1860.

My Dear, Dear Yankee: I got your letter. How can you be so tender-hearted and take seriously my silly abusing you? It was only to tease. Know it once for all, that you are among the few whom I never doubt. I hope ardently, too, that you will succeed for your brother.

Good-by, good-by.
Gurowski.

If you make speeches, put me in as Sumner did; will be a capital advertisement. I begin to be Yankee.

Gur.

SOURCE: James Shepherd Pike, First Blows of the Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States from 1850 to 1860, p. 524

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