ANS, one page, 5.5 x 9, no date. Note to Sam Carter, in full: "I wish you to send me some pure whiskey. I have some which is not fit to drink yet it is called good by some." In very good condition, with reinforcement to central fold and unrelated stray scribbling to lower portion. While this letter is undated, it is almost certainly as president. In fact, legendary, pioneering autograph dealer Thomas Madigan referenced this very "curious letter" in the November 1911, Volume 1, Issue 1 of his magazine The Autograph, dating it "circa 1866" and stating then that Johnson was "the scarcest of the Presidents in A.L.S." Ex. Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, January 30, 1979; sale 4210, lot 105.
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