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FILLMORE, MILLARD, President. Autograph letter signed ("M. Fillmore") as New York Representative, to Curtis Dixon, Washington, D.C., 5 March 1834. 1 page, 4to, 250 x 200mm. (9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.), integral address panel. Fine.
[With:] Autograph free frank ("Free M. Fillmore M.C.") on address panel in Fillmore's hand to the above in Hollidaysburgh, Pa., orange circular "City of Washington Mar 7" postmark, remnants of red wax seal, small seal hole, address panel slightly darkened.
"THE STATE OF MATRIMONY IS...THE BEST STATE IN THE UNION"
Representative Fillmore congratulates a friend on his upcoming marriage with a humorous allusion to the nullification controversy. "I am happy to hear that you have 'chosen that better part' of human nature, and I must be permitted to mingle with my congratulations my most earnest hopes that you may find it a choice 'never to be of'...I am a fierce believer in the doctrine that a state of matrimony is upon the whole the best state in the Union, and will be the last to yield to the demanding doctrine of nullification, and that there is little danger to be apprehended from the opposite extreme of consolidation..."
[With:] Autograph free frank ("Free M. Fillmore M.C.") on address panel in Fillmore's hand to the above in Hollidaysburgh, Pa., orange circular "City of Washington Mar 7" postmark, remnants of red wax seal, small seal hole, address panel slightly darkened.
"THE STATE OF MATRIMONY IS...THE BEST STATE IN THE UNION"
Representative Fillmore congratulates a friend on his upcoming marriage with a humorous allusion to the nullification controversy. "I am happy to hear that you have 'chosen that better part' of human nature, and I must be permitted to mingle with my congratulations my most earnest hopes that you may find it a choice 'never to be of'...I am a fierce believer in the doctrine that a state of matrimony is upon the whole the best state in the Union, and will be the last to yield to the demanding doctrine of nullification, and that there is little danger to be apprehended from the opposite extreme of consolidation..."