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Autograph letter signed

to unknown re: ordering Saratoga water

1834/11/20

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

The recipient's name is illegible. With a note on verso regarding son Smith (?).

GLC04675.12
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Autograph letter signed

to William L. Macy re: speech of John C. Calhoun

1838/02/16

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

GLC06780
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Autograph letter signed

to John Branch

circa October 18, 1830

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

Letter of introduction of Mr. Groves of New York to Secretary of the Navy Branch. Written as Secretary of State.

GLC00496.241
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Document signed

[Pardon of William Field for violations of maritime law]

20 March 1839

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

Countersigned by Secretary of State John Forsyth. Field, master of the schooner Boston, was convicted of illegally landing a seaman and for omitting to deposit his register at the U.S. Commercial Agency at the port of Aux Cayes in Haiti. Since he...

GLC00068.05
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Document signed

[Presidential authority to affix the seal to the release of George Gausman]

December 27, 1838

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

Authority given to Secretary of State John Forsyth.

GLC00076.02
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Autograph letter signed

to William C. Bouck

January 17, 1843

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

Advises Bouck to make a speedy decision one way or the other to resolve a scandal in Albany involving the state's printing. Remarks that it would be far worse to delay a decision. Discusses at length how to conduct the executive branch of the...

GLC00097
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Document signed

[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of Charles Green, slave of Ann Seddon, Stafford County, Virginia].

24 July 1840

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

GLC00153
GLC00198
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Manuscript letter signed

to the Senate of the United States

December 6, 1838

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

Instructions for complying with the act of July 1, 1836 concerning a bequest made by James Smithson to the United States government. Asks Congress to attend to properly fulfilling the object of the bequest. Informs that last July the Secretary of...

GLC00198
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Manuscript document signed

[Last page of 1838 message to Congress]

3 December 1838

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

"Whatever differences of opinion may exist as to the expediency of vesting such a power in the Judiciary in a system of Government constituted like that of the United States, all must agree that these disparaging discrepancies in the law and in the...

GLC03994
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Letter signed

to Francisco Pacon

15 April 1829

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

Written by Van Buren as Secretary of State. Acknowledges Pacon's letter of 11 April 1829 which provided "a List of all the Grants of Land, purporting to have been made in the Floridas, by the Government of His Catholic Majesty." This diplomatic...

GLC04058

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