Grover Cleveland Autograph Letter Signed. Two pages, 5.25" x 8.25", April 22, 1889, New York, on the letterhead of Bangs, St...

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Regarding a newspaper clipping about Cleveland's trip to Florida. In part: "I return the clipping you sent me purporting to contain a part of an interview with me during my second trip to Florida. . . . I shall content myself in this case with merely saying that the report of the interview contained in the clipping is very inaccurate."

Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) was the only U.S. president to serve two nonconsecutive terms (he was both the twenty-second and the twenty-fourth president). After his first term, he joined the New York City law firm of Bangs, Stetson, Tracy, & MacVeagh. While there, his responsibilities were modest, as was his salary. Four years later, he and his wife Frances, the youngest first lady to live in the White House, returned to the Washington, D.C. to begin Cleveland's second administration.

Cleveland's visit to Florida in 1888 was covered by many major newspapers, partly because a visit to a southern state was important and partly because his new wife, twenty-three-year-old Frances, accompanied him.