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TAYLOR, ZACHARY, President. Letter signed ("Z. Taylor") as Major General to Mr. Sloanaker, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 28 February 1848. 1 1/4 pages, 246 x 200mm. (9 1/2 x 8 in.), integral blank.
BACK FROM THE MEXICAN WAR, GENERAL TAYLOR AGREES "TO SIT FOR A DAGUERREOTYPE LIKENESS"
Just 26 days after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, marking the end of the war with Mexico, and four months before winning the Whig presidential nomination, General Taylor arranges to pose for a photograph: "Your communication of the 10th instant requesting me to sit for a Daguerreotype likeness, has been duly received...[I]t will afford me much pleasure to accede to your request about the 20th proximo, at which time I shall be in this place. Should, however, the artist [photographer] whom you may have engaged for this business, make his appearance...previous to that date, it will be equally as convenient for me to sit for him if I should happen to be here; but for the greater part of the time...I shall be absent from Baton Rouge..."
BACK FROM THE MEXICAN WAR, GENERAL TAYLOR AGREES "TO SIT FOR A DAGUERREOTYPE LIKENESS"
Just 26 days after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, marking the end of the war with Mexico, and four months before winning the Whig presidential nomination, General Taylor arranges to pose for a photograph: "Your communication of the 10th instant requesting me to sit for a Daguerreotype likeness, has been duly received...[I]t will afford me much pleasure to accede to your request about the 20th proximo, at which time I shall be in this place. Should, however, the artist [photographer] whom you may have engaged for this business, make his appearance...previous to that date, it will be equally as convenient for me to sit for him if I should happen to be here; but for the greater part of the time...I shall be absent from Baton Rouge..."