Hall asks the favor of some blank deeds and mortgages to use in his law dealings with Sawyer and Knowlton of Ann Arbor and also some information on that firm. Also he would like to be referred to an attorney in Iowa to handle matters there. He believes Grover Cleveland more likely than any other man to carry New York State. Kelly, he says, would sell out anybody for the New York Mayoralty, and his critics will probably turn on this. The reform bills passed last winter give great power to the mayor and Kelly is out unless he can deceive him. That probably in his price; he will go for Blaine if it well help him, and they may as well have a Republican as a Democrat. They know they can make more out of a Republican. Kelly would sell Bayard as soon as Cleveland. As to Bayard and Cleveland, Cleveland is the stronger intellectually, but less cultured and experienced than Bayard; his firmness makes up for his lack of experience. Cleveland would run as well as Bayard in New York, and in any other Democratic state, and the independents will prefer him. The Irish will not get very far out of the traces and all of Tammany will not follow Kelly. Hall would prefer to give Kelly the mayoralty and trust to luck to clear things up after a Democratic president is elected. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.