May 05, 2016 - Sale 2413

Sale 2413 - Lot 117

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
"I SHALL BE VERY GLAD WHEN THIS ELECTION IS OVER" FILLMORE, MILLARD. Autograph Letter Signed, to A.L. Lynn, lamenting the lack of financial resources during his fledgling gubernatorial campaign. With a holograph "confidential" on first page. 3 pages, 4to, written on first three pages of a single folded sheet; loss at one corner affecting four lines of text repaired with inlaid paper, short separations at folds. (TFC) Buffalo, 25 October 1844
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"I am gratified to hear that things look so well east and especially in N. York. All looks very well here. But our recent calamity has spread a gloom over the city, and the contributions required for the sufferers together with the losses sustained by many of our business men make it difficult to raise the requisite means to defray the unavoidable expenses for the election. Our committee had an idea of requesting some aid from the East, but I dissuaded them from that, offering . . . any amount that they should judge necessary . . . provided that what I paid should be expended for lawful purposes.
"To my surprise, I received a note last evening from R. King, Esq., chairman of the State committee at Albany, saying that they are straitened for funds, and that it had been usual to look to state officers for pecuniary aid and requesting me to say what I could give.
"This matter has given me some uneasiness as I was not aware of any such practice, and it has been hinted to me, that the central committee has manifested some coldness because I had not proffered the funds according to usage. . . . I should still be willing to add to those sacrifices very much rather than incur the suspicions of acting dishonourably in this matter. . . .
"My object in writing you . . . confidentially and as a friend [is to ask you to advise] me what to do, and see our folks in N[ew York] and make to them the proper explanation. . . .
"I shall be very glad when this election is over. . . ."
The Governorship of New York was given to Democrat Silas Wright when he narrowly won the election on November 5, 1844.