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James Buchanan

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James Buchanan

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Auction Date:2012 Aug 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS, one page both sides, 5.25 x 7.75, March 30, 1863. Letter to Jeremiah S. Black, who served as attorney general and secretary of state during Buchanan’s presidency. In part: “It will be three and not two years, as you suppose, since you gave me your note on the 2 April 1860 at Washington City. This accounts for your supposition that you had paid me one year’s interest in advance. Your check for $1500 on the York Bank leaves a balance due on the note of $630, which you may pay at your own entire convenience. I was much gratified that you had so highly distinguished yourself in the argument of the Almaden case and that you had gained it. Without your efforts the cause would have been lost. I trust you have made yourself independent for life, as you certainly ought to have done by your success.” Blank second integral page is inlaid in a 6.5 x 9.5 sheet. In very good condition, with scattered foxing, a water spot to the upper left (not affecting any ink), and slight tape repair to separation of the upper horizontal fold. Accompanied by a 9 x 14 folder with an engraving of Buchanan affixed. Black, one of Buchanan’s most trusted advisors, believed in the unconstitutionality of secession and encouraged the reinforcement of Fort Sumter at the start of the Civil War. This scarce piece of correspondence lends some insight into the inner workings of a relationship between men who tried to lead an increasingly fractured country as it descended into the bloodiest war in US history.
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