Grover Cleveland
TWENTY-SECOND AND TWENTY-FOURTH PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES
1885–1889 and 1893–1897
March 8, 1905 letter from Grover Cleveland to Fanny Crosby.
Grover Cleveland (1837–1908) served two terms as President. He
wrote this personal letter to famous Methodist hymn writer Frances
Jean “Fanny” Crosby (1820
–
1915) from his home, Westland Mansion,
in Princeton, New Jersey, where he lived in retirement.
Photograph of Fanny Crosby at the age of 94, dated February 18,
1914,
with an inscription reading: “Dear Old Spring Street Church I
love you still. I am with you still, at your Hour of Prayer. I join in your
songs of gratitude and praise.”
The inscription is likely not Crosby’s
own handwriting. In keeping with her
interdenominational outlook, the Old
Spring Street Church mentioned so
affectionately was a Presbyterian Church
in New York City.
