ALS as president, one page, 5 x 8, October 15, 1851. Handwritten letter to bookseller Frank Taylor, in part: "If you have Wharton's state trials please send me a copy…bound for the Executive Mansion." In very good to fine condition, with light soiling and some small tears. Taylor operated the Waverly Book-Store on Pennsylvania Avenue, providing works to Washington's elite movers and shakers for decades in the middle of the 19th century.
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