NEW YORK, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1891.
Dear Brother: I am drifting along in the old rut in good
strength, attending to about four dinners a week at public or private houses,
and generally wind up for gossip at the Union League Club. Last night,
discussing the effect of Mr. Windom's death and funeral, several prominent
gentlemen remarked that Windom's fine speech just preceding his death was in
line with yours on the silver question in the Senate, and also with a carefully
prepared interview with you by George Alfred Townsend, which I had not seen. I
have ordered of my book-man the New York "Sun" of Sunday, February
1st, which contains the interview.
You sent me a copy
of your bill in pamphlet form, which was begged from me, and as others
naturally apply for copies I wish you would have your secretary send me a
dozen, that I may distribute them.
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, pp. 381-2
