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PRESIDENTS]. FILLMORE, MILLARD. Autograph letter signed to J.C. Spencer Buffalo, [New York], 18 February 1837, 1 page, folio, address panel on verso, a full-page letter on legal aspects of a complex suit: "...We have generally advised persons that it was unnecessary to appear in the suit by the assignees to enable them to recover their own demands, but the question of appearance to contest others has been a subject of consideration. We see no objection, however, to the course indicated by you..." -- BUCHANAN, JAMES. Autograph letter signed to Anson Herrick, Wheatland, [Pennsylvania], 11 March 1853, 1 1/2 pages, 4to, declaring that "[I] have never in my life interfered in the local appointments for the Port of New York or any other port beyond...my own state. It would certainly be thought strange if I, a mere outsider, in another State, should address a letter to the President recommending a surveyor for the Port of New York. I have a nephew by marriage at San Francisco...& I have declined to recommend him for Navy agent, on the principle I have stated. It is with pain that I refuse any request of yours..." -- VAN BUREN, MARTIN. Autograph letter signed to the historian and author Benson Lossing, Kinderhook, New York, 12 May 1857, 1 page, 8vo, free franked panel pasted to integral blank, detailing his European tour: "I left home on the 30th of April 1853 & returned in July fifty five, & travelled in England[,] Ireland & Scotland, & on the Continent in France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Switzerland...," -- GARFIELD, JAMES, A. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient, n.p., 30 January 1[8]77, 1 page, 8vo, asking: "[I]f you have room I would like to have you add the enclosed [speech] as a motto on the title-page -- I hear there are to be pamphlet copies called for..." -- HARRISON, BENJAMIN. Autograph letter signed to Miles C. Moore, Washington, D.C., 4 November 1889, 1 page, 4to, on a sheet of gray memo paper, telling Governor Moore to "send another 'copy of said Constitution' certified by you and attested by the Secretary with the seal attached..." -- MCKINLEY, WILLIAM. Typed letter signed as Governor of Ohio, to Wilbur F. Wakeman, Columbus, Ohio, 26 December 1894, 1 page, 4to, on Governor's office stationery, thanking Wakeman "for your kind note of the 24th...when occasion comes I shall *ot hesitate to communicate with you..."; together 6 items. (6)