GARFIELD, JAMES A., President. Autograph letter signed ("J. A. Garfield") as member of the House of Representatives, to Mrs. Emily Talbot declining a request to prepare a paper for a meeting of the Social Science Association in Saratoga: "...I shall probably during that month be devoting my time to the Presidential campaign." Washington, D. C., 5 April 1880. 4to, on printed House of Representatives stationary, split horizontally along central fold (crossing one line); matted and framed with an oval engraved portrait.

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GARFIELD, JAMES A., President. Autograph letter signed ("J. A. Garfield") as member of the House of Representatives, to Mrs. Emily Talbot declining a request to prepare a paper for a meeting of the Social Science Association in Saratoga: "...I shall probably during that month be devoting my time to the Presidential campaign." Washington, D. C., 5 April 1880. 4to, on printed House of Representatives stationary, split horizontally along central fold (crossing one line); matted and framed with an oval engraved portrait.