Letter from John Carlin to Thurlow Weed, February 19, 1874
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Letter from John Carlin to Thurlow Weed, February 19, 1874
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Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1874-02-19
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Letter from John Carlin to Thurlow Weed, February 19, 1874
action: sent
sender: John Carlin
Birth: 1813-06-15
Death: 1891-04-23
location: New York, NY
receiver: Thurlow Weed
Birth: 1797-11-15
Death: 1882-11-22
location: Washington D.C., US
transcription: csh
revision: crb 2017-06-13
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No 212 West 25th St
New York February 19, 1874.
Thurlow Weed Esq.
My Dear Friend. May I avail
myself of our old acquaintance, and of
your kindness of heart and great influence
over men in our legislative and Congressional
halls, to ask if you think you can do me
a little service?
Last March Hon Mr Roscoe Conkling
Birth: 1829-10-30 Death: 1888-04-18
wrote me, instructing me to present my
petition in a note to the Chairman of
the Senate Library Committee (Hon Mr
Howe
Birth: 1816-02-24 Death: 1883-03-24
) and another to the CongressionalLibrarian
Birth: 1825-09-12 Death: 1908-08-11
, and advising me to forwardmy notes to them this Winter. I did
early in January last, with the application
for a commission to execute a historical
painting for the U.S. Government, a copy
of which you will find enclosed.
Since that time I have never received
any reply from either of them the addressed;
and I am very unwilling to trouble them
by renewing my application. But,
presuming that you are a personal
friend of Hon Mr Howe and the Congressional
Librarian: will it be agreeable to you
to solicit their attention to my notes, and
also their influence in the matter of
my picture.
Congress has bestowed favors without
stint on hearing and speaking persons,
but never any on a single deaf mute.
So I venture to hope that Congress will
graciously and generously make me
the first deaf-mute recipient of
Congressional patronage.
Trusting that you will most
heartily comply with my request,
I remain,
My dear Sir, yours
most respectfully,
John Carlin,
Mute Artist.
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