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Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 to Curtis Dixon

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05575 Author/Creator: Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 5 March 1834 Pagination: 1 p. : address : free frank Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Sends his congratulations on his cousin's marriage and jokes that he believes "a state of matrimony is upon the whole the best state in the Union, and will be the last to yield to the sundering doctrine of nullification, and that there is little danger to be apprehended from the opposite extreme of consolidation."

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874
Dixon, Curtis, fl. 1834

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