"DEAR GOVERNOR CLEVELAND,--When you shall relieve yourself of the urgent duties of your present office, if it will be agreeable to you to take a few days' repose at Greystone, it will give me great pleasure to welcome you, and make you as comfortable as possible. I shall be happy to invite Mr. and Mrs. Manning at the same time--which intention, I believe, has already been communicated to you. "With cordial regards, I am, "Very truly yours, "(Signed) S. J. TILDEN." TILDEN TO HUGH McCULLOCH "GREYSTONE, YONKERS, N. Y., _January 24, 1885_. "DEAR MR. MCCULLOCH,--I have received the reports which you were kind enough to send me, and for which please accept my thanks. "I note your remark that you hope to have the pleasure of meeting me in Washington. I presume you have seen the rumor in the public journals that I have taken rooms in Washington. That rumor is unfounded. I have a disorder of the nerves of motion, which is aggravated by the fatigue and exposure of travel. I therefore forego all such pleasures. "This note will be handed to you by Mr. C. N. Jordan, formerly cashier of the Third National Bank and an intelligent financier, whom I beg leave to introduce to you and commend to your confidence. "He is requested, while in Washington, to obtain information which may enable me to guide my judgment as to what measures are necessary, and will be effectual to preserve the faith and honor of the government of the United States, and a sound currency for the people. "I desire that such voice as a private man in retirement may have should be given in the right direction. "With my best wishes for Mrs. and Miss McCulloch and yourself, I remain, "Very truly yours. "As I write this note, I am reminded that at the last time I was in Washington you were Secretary of the Treasury under the Johnson administration." DANIEL MANNING TO TILDEN _"Confidential_. "ALBANY, N. Y., _Jan'y 24, 1885_. "My dear Governor,--Ever since my return home in December, the cashier of our bank has been absent--ill of pneumonia--and I have been doing double duty. Until he returns, I cannot leave the city. We expect him at his desk early next week. "Mr. Cleveland intends to go to New York on, or about, the 1st of February, to remain a week, for the purpose of giving everybody who wants to see him an opportunity to call on him. Either before, or after, that time (probably after) he will go to Greystone, and he wants me to go there with him. "No committals have been made, nor will any be made, until after those visits have occurred. The situation remains just the same as when I was last with you. "Will you want to see me before we make our proposed call? "M." SMITH M. WEED TO GEORGE W. SMITH[31] _"Personal_. "PLATTSBURG, N. Y., _Jany. 25, 1885_. "GEO. W. SMITH.