If this question has multiple answers, it'd be that the letter is dated and it is a handwritten document. If it's multiple choice. I'd say, logically, it'd be a handwritten document because anyone can put a date on a paper but it's very difficult to recreate someone's handwriting. Also, considering it was in 1854, they used feather pens and ink.
Answer: The 1936 Republican presidential candidate lost in a landslide.
<span>it was the year the republican era began (according to comparisons made between the greek calender and the Roman fasti [the list of consuls that marked the year on the pre-imperial roman calender] by late republican era historians)</span>
What he is doing is closely associated with Use first if the technical reasoning pattern.