autograph letter signed de buchanan james (5 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : N/a. First Edition. 32pp. 1967. First Edition. A very scarce self-published book on the Paisley Shawl. The author's grandfather was a Paisley shawl manufacturer: 'In memory of my grandfather, James Robertson (1793- 1874), of Messrs. John and James Robertson, Shawl Manufacturers Paisley.' The book a hardcover - bound in black cloth boards - gilt embossed to the front board. The book presented in a typed script. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed written by the author on 1st Sept. 1967 to a James Adair, Esq., O.B.E. who also lived in Glasgow. No doubt a very scarce publication on the Paisley Shawl.

Letter. Two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "James Buchanan" on the recto and verso of the first leaf of a single folded sheet (7-3/4" x 9-5/8") to John Y. Mason, former Secretary of the Navy under President Polk, regarding the aging Dolley Madison (who would die about 2 weeks after this letter was written), plans for a visit, Pennsylvania politics, and possible investments in Virginia state bonds. Housed in a brown morocco-backed green cloth clamshell box (10-1/2" x 13"). Toward the end of her life, Dolley Madison (20 May 1768-12 July 1849), widow of the 4th president of the United States, lived in abject poverty. In 1849, Congress appropriated $20,000 toward the purchase of her husband's papers, and in her will, she appointed Buchanan, Mason, and Richard Smith as trustees. In this letter Buchanan, having recently served as Secretary of State under Polk writes to his fellow trustee. In part: "I returned from Washington last night, having done the best I could for Mrs. Madison. I found it difficult to persuade her that she ought not to have the whole premium placed in her hands at once, in which event it would have been of little or not service to her. The old lady has greatly changed since I saw her last. She is now very feeble. It is my purpose, God willing, to pass the next winter at New Orleans. It would do your heart good to see Walker. He is as plump as a partridge & as lively as a lark. He has already got 21 cases in the Supreme Court. Should a judicious selection be made of a Candidate for Canal Commissioner at Pittsburg on the 4th proximo, which I have no reason to doubt, we shall redeem this State, in handsome style in October; but the day has passed in Penn[sylvania] when a Democratic nomination is equivalent to an election. The popular will must now be consulted in the selection of Candidates: & this being done, we have as large a Democratic majority as ever." Interesting content with a typed transcript of the letter incorporated into a certificate of authenticity. Creasing from mailing. Near Fine in a Near Fine clamshell box.

[2]pp. on a folded folio leaf, docketed on the fourth page. One horizontal and two vertical folds. Lightly dampstained. Two tiny edge tears. Very good. In a blue half leather and cloth folding box, gilt. A remarkable political letter from future president James Buchanan, marked "Private" for Mayor David Lynch of Pittsburgh, whose support Buchanan secured for his potential presidential nomination at the 1852 Democratic Convention. Buchanan concisely conveys to Lynch his assessment of three close rivals for the White House. Buchanan had presidential aspirations as early as 1834 when he was elected to the Senate. He was considered for the 1844 Democratic nomination, which would eventually go to James K. Polk. For his support Buchanan was appointed by Polk as Secretary of State in 1845. Buchanan made a good run at the 1852 nomination, though the nomination and ultimately the presidency went to Franklin Pierce. In this letter, dated just over a month before the Democratic National Convention at Maryland Institute Hall in Baltimore, Buchanan writes candidly about other potential presidential nominees. Of Gen. Lewis Cass, Buchanan writes: "Your review of some matters relating to General Cass contains nothing but facts; & yet should it ever be traced to you from our known friendship & intimacy it will be employed by his friends to injure me.Neither Cass nor his leading friends in Pennsylvania deserve any forbearance at our hands; but he has friends in other States, who, I know, are strongly inclined in my favor, & we ought not to pursue any course which would drive them from their purpose." Buchanan's appraisal of Stephen A. Douglas is measured, but positive: "He possesses fine talents, a strong character & decided energy; & although I cannot approve all his conduct or that of some of his friends, he is not liable to so many objections as his western competitor [Lewis Cass]. With a few years good training, he would make an excellent President." Buchanan reserves the most heat for his Whig adversary, Gen. Winfield Scott: "Scott, in order to secure all the free soil votes of the non-slaveholding States, will refrain from signing a pledge to sustain the Fugitive Slave Law; but yet he will give assurances to his Southern friends that he will faithfully execute this law & there will be proclaimed every where in the South." General Winfield Scott was nominated by the Whigs on the 53rd ballot at their June 17-20, 1852 convention, also held at Maryland Institute Hall, and then soundly defeated in November by Pierce, 296 to 42 electoral votes. Scott won just four states: Kentucky, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Interestingly, Buchanan does not discuss Pierce in this letter, as the latter emerged as a compromise candidate well into the balloting process at the 1852 Democratic convention. A candid peek inside the political mind of a future president.

[2]pp. Old folds, minor tanning. Very good. In a green cloth chemise. An excellent letter from future President James Buchanan to James A. Caldwell, regarding national finance and the diffusion of the "Aroostook War" at the end of the decades-long Maine boundary conflict with Great Britain. Caldwell, a Democratic state senator of Pennsylvania, was a close personal friend and frequent correspondent of Buchanan in the 1830s and 40s. This letter from then-senator Buchanan reads in part: "In regard to Mr. Tyler's measures of nomination; I feel every disposition to support both when I can do so without a violation of principle; but I cannot approve his Exchequer project. Indeed it has but few, - very few friends in either party. As it was originally presented by the Secretary of the Treasury [Walter Forward], I considered it more dangerous if possible than a National Bank.Nothing has yet authentically transpired of the character of Lord Ashburton's negotiations. He is very pacific in his conversation; I have no doubt he sincerely desires to preserve the peace between the two countries, but we cannot yet form any decided opinion at what may be the results.One of the greatest evils under our system is the unreasonable length of the sessions of Congress. We have now been in session nearly six months and the House have not yet begun to consider the tariff question." Tyler's Exchequer Project was a plan presented to Congress in December 1841, which envisioned a public banking institution directed by a non-partisan Board of Control. It failed in the face of intense resistance from Henry Clay; Tyler, for his part, vetoed Clay's bill proposing a National Bank. "Lord Ashburton's negotiations," conducted with Daniel Webster, sought to diffuse rumblings of war between Great Britain and America based on the disputed northern border of Maine. The Webster-Ashburton Treaty was finally signed on August 9, affording Maine the familiar shape it retains today. This marked the end nearly a century of conflict, with its roots as far back as the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. A brief but notable letter from a future president, touching on two of the major political issues of the early 1840s. James S. Copley.

Autograph letter signed entirely in the handÂof the 15th President of the United States, James Buchanan to Philadelphia publisher Mathew Carey. Addressed to Mathew Carey, the letter reads, "Lancaster 24 October 1825. Dear Sir, I have a favor to ask you which I feel assured you will grant. Your maxim, I know, both in public and private life is to render justice to all men. I have heard with surprise from several respectable sources that I have been denounced in Philadelphia by many as an enemy to internal imprisonment. This has arisen from what is alleged in your city to have been my course in the canal convention. Upon this subject I think I have been hardly treated. Some of your editors published my resolutions and the speeches of others in support of them; but not one of them has ever published my observations. As I feel a high respect for the opinion of many of the citizens of Philadelphia I should be sorry they would labor under a false impression respecting me. I therefore take the liberty of requesting you to have my resolution and the few remarks I made or such parts of them that you may deem proper republished by some one of your editors. If you will see one justice done in this particular I shall feel forever obliged to you. Your opinion in this particular I shall feel forever obliged to you. Your opinion would at once correct every erroneous impression, I used every effort in my power for the Delaware and Chesapeake canal. With sentiments of the highest respect both for your intellectual and moral character. I remain your sincere friend, James Buchanan N.B. I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you in 2 or 3 weeks." Accompanied by the original mailing envelope addressed to Carey in Buchanan's hand. Irish-born American publisher Mathew Carey established himself as a publisher in Philadelphia by founding the Pennsylvania Herald in 1785 and Columbian Magazine in 1786. He published the firstÂRoman Catholic version of the Bible printed in the United States, America's first atlases, and frequently wrote on various social topics includingÂdebates in the state legislature. In very good condition with some browning to the page edges. The 15th President of the United States, James Buchanan, served immediately prior to the American Civil War. Buchanan aspired to be a president who would rank in history with George Washington with his tendencies toward neutrality and impartiality. Historians fault him, however, for his failure to address the issue of slavery and the secession of the southern states, bringing the nation to the brink of civil war.