PRESIDENTS]. VAN BUREN, MARTIN. Autograph letter signed ("M. van Buren"), to former Attorney General Benjamin Butler, Lindenwald [Lindenwald, New York], 11 November 1856, 4 pages, 8vo, small marginal hole incurring loss to two words , "...You know how ardently I have desired to withdraw from further participation in party politics, either in feeling or action. I have made great advances towards that end, but have not before been in as good a position as I now am to do it entirely. The first effective step is to avoid reading papers in which partisan questions are discussed...". He asks Butler to help him cancel his subscription to the N.Y. Evening Post , while praising its editor, the poet William Cullen Bryant, "for whom I entertain the highest respect, who I am very sure will never take any course, in politics or any thing else, which both his judgement & his conscience does not approve & for whose welfare I am sincerely solicitous. If I desired to continue such reading I could not expect to find it more truthful anywhere than in the Post , but I do not, & for that sole reason discontinue the paper"--JOHNSON, ANDREW. Document signed in full as President, Washington, D.C., 25 July 1868, one page, 4to , a printed document, accomplished in manuscript, authorizing the Secretary of State "to affix the Seal of the United States to a Warrant for the pardon of Charles Hartman and Ferdinand Sulzberger...."--TAYLOR, ZACHARY. Letter signed ("Z. Taylor") as Lt. Col., to Colonel Roger Jones Adjutant General of the U.S. Army in Washington, Head Qrs. [at Fort Crawford], 8 February 1836, one page, 4to, 2 discreet marginal repairs , requesting funds for the Recruiting Service of the First Regiment, "there being a prospect of re-enlisting many of our Soldiers about to be discharged--GARFIELD, JAMES ABRAM. Letter signed ("J. Garfield") to Prof. A. C. Turning, Washington D.C., 18 January 1873, one page, 4to, docketed on verso, light fold through the signature , "...an investigation has already been ordered by the House into the conduct of Judge Durell. I will take the liberty of showing your letter to the Chairman of the Com[mitte]e having that subject in charge. It is difficult to see the end of the Louisiana trouble"--HARRISON, BENJAMIN. Autograph letter signed ("Mr & Mrs Benj Harrison"), to Mrs. Genl. [Philip Henry] Sheridan, n.p., n.d. [5 August 1888], one page, 8vo, a draft, with two revisions, slight ink blotting to one word , a condolence letter: "...There are shadows over the land; but our thoughts are of those who stand in the deeper gloom". (5)
PRESIDENTS]. VAN BUREN, MARTIN. Autograph letter signed ("M. van Buren"), to former Attorney General Benjamin Butler, Lindenwald [Lindenwald, New York], 11 November 1856, 4 pages, 8vo, small marginal hole incurring loss to two words , "...You know how ardently I have desired to withdraw from further participation in party politics, either in feeling or action. I have made great advances towards that end, but have not before been in as good a position as I now am to do it entirely. The first effective step is to avoid reading papers in which partisan questions are discussed...". He asks Butler to help him cancel his subscription to the N.Y. Evening Post , while praising its editor, the poet William Cullen Bryant, "for whom I entertain the highest respect, who I am very sure will never take any course, in politics or any thing else, which both his judgement & his conscience does not approve & for whose welfare I am sincerely solicitous. If I desired to continue such reading I could not expect to find it more truthful anywhere than in the Post , but I do not, & for that sole reason discontinue the paper"--JOHNSON, ANDREW. Document signed in full as President, Washington, D.C., 25 July 1868, one page, 4to , a printed document, accomplished in manuscript, authorizing the Secretary of State "to affix the Seal of the United States to a Warrant for the pardon of Charles Hartman and Ferdinand Sulzberger...."--TAYLOR, ZACHARY. Letter signed ("Z. Taylor") as Lt. Col., to Colonel Roger Jones Adjutant General of the U.S. Army in Washington, Head Qrs. [at Fort Crawford], 8 February 1836, one page, 4to, 2 discreet marginal repairs , requesting funds for the Recruiting Service of the First Regiment, "there being a prospect of re-enlisting many of our Soldiers about to be discharged--GARFIELD, JAMES ABRAM. Letter signed ("J. Garfield") to Prof. A. C. Turning, Washington D.C., 18 January 1873, one page, 4to, docketed on verso, light fold through the signature , "...an investigation has already been ordered by the House into the conduct of Judge Durell. I will take the liberty of showing your letter to the Chairman of the Com[mitte]e having that subject in charge. It is difficult to see the end of the Louisiana trouble"--HARRISON, BENJAMIN. Autograph letter signed ("Mr & Mrs Benj Harrison"), to Mrs. Genl. [Philip Henry] Sheridan, n.p., n.d. [5 August 1888], one page, 8vo, a draft, with two revisions, slight ink blotting to one word , a condolence letter: "...There are shadows over the land; but our thoughts are of those who stand in the deeper gloom". (5)
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