DAVID DOWS TO TILDEN "_April 22d, 1881._ "DEAR GOVERNOR,--Your note of this date rec'd. I am very much obliged to you for it. "I think you have acted judiciously, not that I think the bonds unsafe, but I think the chances are that they will decline in price. "Your note will be regarded as you request and again thanking you for it, "I am, y'r friend, "DAVID DOWS." S. J. TILDEN TO GEORGE BANCROFT "GREYSTONE, YONKERS, N. Y., _July 11, 1881_. "DEAR MR. BANCROFT,--I thank you for your kind attention to Mrs. Rummel's[25] request. She is the same lady whom you knew in Berlin. [25] A daughter of S. F. B. Morse, who is credited with having established the first telegraphic line of communication in America. "I presume that you read other things in preference to the newspapers. That is often the taste of retired statesmen and men of letters. Notably it was of Mr. Jefferson. To mention little things with large, it is my own. "You remind me that it is five years since I have had the pleasure of seeing you. I hope the interval may not be so long hereafter. In the mean time, I am always glad to hear of your health and happiness. "With remembrances to your family, and with assurances of cordial esteem for yourself, I remain, "Very truly yours, "S. J. TILDEN." RESOLUTIONS DRAWN BY MR. TILDEN FOR A MEETING OF THE CITIZENS OF YONKERS ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD "_September, 1881._ "The citizens of Yonkers, convened in public meeting, on the invitation of the Mayor and Aldermen of the city, and presided over by the civic authorities, resolve: "_First_--That the death of the President of the United States by the individual crime of a private assassin is a deplorable event in our national history; that the evil example is intensified by the occurrence of such an event a second time within about sixteen years; that such treason against the elective sovereignty of the people tends to encourage future attempts to subvert the Chief Magistracy of the Republic by criminal violence, under the influence of progressively increasing temptations to personal resentments and private malignity, which are incident to the ever-growing power and patronage of the executive office; and that all good citizens ought to join in every wise measure for limiting these temptations, and for restoring and strengthening every moral security which heretofore surrounded the First Citizen of the Republic as he moved without guards among the people. "_Secondly_--That to Mrs. Garfield and the other members of the bereaved family of the heroic sufferer and illustrious victim is given our heart-felt sympathy and condolence." S. J. TILDEN TO HON. WILLIAM PURCELL "GREYSTONE, _October 3, 1881_. "MY DEAR SIR,--I have received your letter stating you intended to call on me and your inability to do so. "I should have written to you earlier except for an illness, and the pressure of claims upon my attention during my convalescence.