"I have been so fearfully caricatured in woodcuts that I am a little reluctant to put myself even in..." 11

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“I have been so fearfully caricatured in woodcuts that I am a little reluctant to put myself even in the power of a friend.”

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Benjamin Harrison to William Penn Nixon, May 19th, 1884.

Harrison posed for a news photographer while visiting New York in May of 1884, where he also met Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge on the street. Cabot Lodge was then chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party, but not yet in Congress, and Theodore Roosevelt was a mere New York Assemblyman. Both men were delegates to the 1884 GOP convention and wished to find an alternative to Blaine or Arthur.

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