JOHN C. SPENCER - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 08/28/1851

Description: HistoryForSaletm Autographs & Manuscripts Make an Offer Today and Get a Quick Response! Take a Look at this Week's Specials! JOHN C. SPENCER - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 08/28/1851 - HFSID 17174 JOHN C. SPENCER ALS as a Governor of the new Albany Hospital - today the Albany Medical Center - soliciting advice on staff salaries Autograph Letter signed: "J. C. Spencer", 1 page, 8x10. Albany, New York, 1851 August 28. To George Newbold, in full: "On behalf of the Governors of the Albany Hospital, I beg to increase the obligation we are already under to you, by soliciting information on some points. We are about to occupy a building temporarily, until one can be erected, and to appoint the necessary officers. But we are at a loss to know what would be a proper compensation for them. We propose to pay only the Superintendent, Matron, Apothecary, and nurses and servants. They will be lodged and boarded in the Hospital. What Salary do you allow your Superintendent, Matron and Apothecary? With us, the latter will be the Assistant Superintendent and clerk. We adopt your by-laws as far as circumstances permit. We have a fund already contributed of $43,000 and expect to make it up to $50,000. Very respectfully your friend and servant". Docketed on verso. John Canfield Spencer (1788-1855), a judge advocate during the War of 1812, represented his New York district in the US House of Representatives as a Democratic-Republican (1817-1819), but vacated the seat in an unsuccessful effort to become US Senator. For the next two decades, he was a New York legislator and district attorney. Appointed special prosecutor in 1826, he helped incite the anti-Masonic movement, claiming that the Masons were a conspiracy aimed at controlling the country. Spencer hosted Alexis de Tocqueville during the latter's tour of upstate New York, and later edited the English-language edition of Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America. President Tyler appointed him to two Cabinet posts: Secretary of War (1841-1843), during which time his son, a navy midshipman, was executed (without trial) for mutiny; and Secretary of the Treasury (1843-1844). As Secretary of the Treasury, he had a special interest in customs collection, believing that tariffs should be raised in preference to levying new internal taxes. Three months before Spencer signed this letter (on January 31, 1844), the US Senate rejected his nomination to the US Supreme Court. President Tyler re-submitted Spencer's name on June 17, but the Senate took up the nomination. Believing he could no longer be effective, and also opposing Tyler's plan to admit Texas to the Union as a slave state, Spencer resigned from the Cabinet. The Albany Hospital, founded in 1849, began serving patients in 1851, the year of this letter. Merged later with the Albany Medical College, it became the Albany Medical Center Hospital, today a 651-bed teaching hospital. Lightly creased. Two filing holes at left. Ink and pencil notes (unknown hand) on verso. Three horizontal and two vertical folds. Otherwise, fine condition. See more material from these signers: JOHN C. SPENCER See more listings in our BUSINESS & FINANCE (1,121) category. Please note that this is an authentically signed item. We do not sell autograph copies or signature reprints Click main eBay images to see larger versions Images shown may contain our company watermark. The actual document does not contain this watermark Certificate of Authenticity This item has been authenticated and is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity issued by our parent company, Gallery of History, Inc. We financially stand behind our COA. 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Price: 360 USD

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

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