Scarce ALS as president, one page, 7.75 x 10, April 4, 1846. Letter to the Hon. Truman Smith, a member of the House of Representatives from Connecticut, in part: "In compliance with the request contained in your note of yesterday, I take pleasure in furnishing your friend…with my autograph. Will you do me the favour to transmit this note to him?" In very good condition, with the signature area (and inexplicably another blank area beneath it) having been restored in place many years ago with old tape on the reverse. Accompanied by an engraved portrait bearing a facsimile signature.
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