Grover Cleveland letter, Washington, D.C., to Gilbert A. Pierce, 1885 May 13 : manuscript.

Washington, D. C., 1885 May 13.

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English

Purchased from Paul C. Richards Autographs on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 3, 1970.

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Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), American politician and lawyer, was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

Autograph letter, signed, from President Grover Cleveland, Washington, D.C., to Governor of Dakota Gilbert A. Pierce concerning the Crow Creek and Winnebago Reservations, 1885 May 13. Cleveland writes that he "regret[s] exceedingly that there are any settlers in good faith upon these reservation lands who will suffer at all by the enforcement of the last Executive proclamation" (likely Proclamation 268 made 1885 April 17, which prohibited non-Indigenous settlement on Indigenous lands).

August 11, 2020

Grover Cleveland Letter to Gilbert A. Pierce. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Grover Cleveland Letter to Gilbert A. Pierce. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.