May 05, 2016 - Sale 2413

Sale 2413 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
FILLMORE, MILLARD. Autograph Letter Signed, as NY Comptroller and Vice-President Elect, to William B. Rose, thanking him for congratulations, returning the newspaper he sent because of insufficient time to read it [not present]. 1 page, 4to; some loss to lower left edge with minor loss to text, moderate scattered foxing, faint scattered soiling, docketing verso, folds. (TFC) Albany, 18 November 1848

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"I . . . return your very cordial thanks for your kind congratulations at the result of the election. I am particularly gratified at the vote in Pennsylvania. It . . . is as glorious for the whig cause as I trust it will be beneficial to the interests of your state. . . .
". . . I am . . . discharging the duties of a very laborious office, and am compelled to return unopened many papers . . . ."
Fillmore served as Vice President for little more than a year, when he was elevated to the presidency due to the death of President Zachary Taylor in July of 1850.