American businessman, politician, and member of the esteemed Guggenheim family (1867–1941) who served as the senator of Colorado from 1907 to 1913. TLS, one page, 7.5 x 10.75, American Smelting & Refining Co. letterhead, February 5, 1917. Letter to Dr. John Wesley Hill, in full: “I regret that I cannot avail myself of your kind invitation to attend the Lincoln Birthday Celebration of the Lincoln Memorial University. It is especially fitting and proper at this time that all of us take increased devotion to the cause for which he gave the last full measure of devotion. To my mind, Lincoln was the Spirit of America. Measured by time his labor was comparatively brief, but in accomplishment and still greater promise, immeasurable. Men are but now discovering that his mind was a great ocean of thought that touched all the shores of human progress. He believed in the people and reached down his strong hands to lift the helpless and oppressed where they could help themselves. Through the University established at his suggestion by General Howard he manifests part of that great spirit which proclaimed that the Nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” In fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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