Correspondence of JAMES K. POLK
I have received your letter of the 20th Instant, tendering to me, on behalf of a “meeting of the Commissioners of Wilmington the hospitalities” of that town, and inviting me to spend a short time at that place, on my way to my residence in Tennessee. I expect to leave this City on the 6th of March, and if I shall find, on my arrival at Wilmington, that I can do so, without being too much delayed on my journey, it will afford me pleasure to comply with your request.
Thanking you for the invitation with which you have honoured me, . . . .
ALS, press copy. DLC–JKP. Addressed to Wilmington, N.C. Published in Wilmington Dispatch, September 4, 1909, and Wilmington Morning Star, September 5, 1909.
- Letter addressed to Miller, Lewis H. Marsteller, and Joshua G. Wright.↩