Lot 540
[US PRESIDENTS] -- [BUCHANAN, James (1791-1868)]. Letter Signed as President, to Chilean President Manuel Montt. Washington, DC, 21 April 1857.
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[US PRESIDENTS] -- [BUCHANAN, James (1791-1868)]. Letter Signed as President, to Chilean President Manuel Montt. Washington, DC, 21 April 1857.
2 pages, 10 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. Countersigned by Secretary of State Lewis Cass.
Written in a calligraphic hand, this letter informs the President of the Republic of Chile that US President James Buchanan has directed David A. Starkweather, the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, to take leave of the President of the Republic of Chile. President Buchanan also states that Starkweather has been directed, "on leaving Chile, to convey to Your Excellency the assurance of our sincere desire to strengthen and extend the friendly intercourse now happily subsisting between the two Governments, and to secure to the People of the two Republics a continuance of the benefits resulting from that intercourse."
Written in a calligraphic hand, this letter informs the President of the Republic of Chile that US President James Buchanan has directed David A. Starkweather, the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, to take leave of the President of the Republic of Chile. President Buchanan also states that Starkweather has been directed, "on leaving Chile, to convey to Your Excellency the assurance of our sincere desire to strengthen and extend the friendly intercourse now happily subsisting between the two Governments, and to secure to the People of the two Republics a continuance of the benefits resulting from that intercourse."
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
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