ALS, one page, 7 x 10.25, personal letterhead, November 19, 1931. Handwritten letter to Thomas Cochran of J.P. Morgan & Company, in full: “Dwight is gone. I do not see what we are going to do without him. While we did not see each other very often and seldom wrote each other I can see now that knowing he was within call was a great reliance to me. He was about the only hope we had of some action on the part of the government. Plenty of other public officials want it but he had the ability to get it. I do not know what we can do now.” Includes a carbon copy of Cochran’s reply on November 24, 1931. In fine condition, with a few small stains.
The referenced “Dwight” is assuredly Dwight Whitney Morrow, an American businessman, diplomat, and politician (1873-1931) who was best known as the U.S. ambassador who improved U.S.-Mexican relations. He was the father of Anne Morrow and the father-in-law of Charles A. Lindbergh.
A partner in J.P. Morgan, Morrow was one of the richest men in New Jersey and, in 1930, he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter Evans Edge. Morrow's death on October 5, 1931, within 30 days of the next election, allowed Republican Governor Morgan Foster Larson to appoint William Warren Barbour as Morrow's successor in the U.S. Senate.
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