[Rarebooks] FS: Grover Cleveland's Speech at the Princeton Sesquicentennial SIGNED by Grover & Frances Cleveland

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CLEVELAND, Grover [CLEVELAND, Frances]. SPEECH OF GROVER CLEVELAND,
PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES,  AT  PRINCETON'S  SESQUICENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION,  OCTOBER  23, 1896. Washington: 1896. First  Edition.  An
eight-page  speech  bound in the original printed orange  wraps.  This
copy  is  SIGNED as President by Cleveland at the bottom blank  margin
of  the  last  page  of text and dated "Oct. 26,  1896."  It  is  also
INSCRIBED  and SIGNED by Mrs. Grover Cleveland at the top of the front
cover:  "Mr. H. W. Green./from/Frances F. Cleveland." President Grover
Cleveland,  49, married Frances Folsom, 21, in June 1886 at the  White
House,  the only President to be married in the White House. When  the
Clevelands  left  the White House in 1897, they retired  to  Princeton
where  Grover  Cleveland  died  in 1908.  In  1913  Frances  married a
Princeton  University  professor  of archaeology  becoming  the  first
presidential  widow to remarry. There was an H. W. Green active in New
Jersey  politics in the middle of the nineteenth century, and this  is
likely  the  inscribee.  Vertical  crease down center.  Very  Good  or
better, and scarce.                                           $4500.00
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