Lot 121
Van Buren, Martin - Manuscript Letter Signed Two Months After Leaving the Presidency (1782-1862) 8th President of the United States (1837-1841). Manuscript letter signed "M. Van Buren" as President, one page, 9¾ x 8", New York, May 7, 1841. To Messrs. Eugene Lawrence, Geo. H. Houghton, and W.H.A. Butler, thanking them for their letter "notifying me of my election as an honorary member of the Philomathean Society of the University of New York and containing with other complementary expressions a assurance, in behalf of the Society, of their pleasure in welcoming me to my native state. I beg you to present to those whom you represent my thanks for the honour conferred by them with my cordial good wishes for the perpetuity and success of the Society and of the Institution with which it is connected, and to accept for yourselves assurances of the sincere respect and regard with which I am, gentlemen, Your friend & obdt. servt." Handsomely matted and framed to an overall size of 16½ x 14¾"; a couple of minor dings to frame are easily retouched. The Philomathean Society, of which Van Buren was made an honorary member, was a literary society founded at New York University in 1832. It existed until 1888. Estimate Value $500 - 800
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