Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 309

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BUCHANAN, JAMES. Autograph Letter Signed, as U.S. Ambassador to Russia, to George Louis Mayer, informing him that Secretary of Legation [John R.] Clay is leaving for Washington and asking that he help him while he is in Lancaster. 1/2 page, folio; addressed on verso, folds. (AKF) St. Petersburg, 20 December 1832

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"Mr. Clay . . . has promised to spend a few days in Lancaster for the pupose of informing my friends there how I am situated in this distant land. . . ."