JOHNSON, ANDREW, President. Letter signed ("Andrew Johnson") as President, to the President of the Republic of Chile, countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward, Washington, D.C., 11 December 1865. 3 pages, large folio, carefully ruled in red, the text written in elaborate calligraphic style in red, blue, yellow, black and gold inks, the first page with several large Gothic capitals, some flaking of the black ink, slight fold separations at margin and a narrow strip at central fold lacking (neither affecting text). AN UNUSUALLY ORNATE LETTER OF CREDENCE INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN MINISTER TO THE CHILEAN PRESIDENT. "...Major General Judson Kilpatrick, one of our distinguished citizens...[is] to reside near the Government of the Republic of Chile in the quality of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary...He is well apprised of the friendship which we bear to your Government, and of our desire to cultivate the harmony and good correspondence so happily subsisting between us..." RARE.

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JOHNSON, ANDREW, President. Letter signed ("Andrew Johnson") as President, to the President of the Republic of Chile, countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward, Washington, D.C., 11 December 1865. 3 pages, large folio, carefully ruled in red, the text written in elaborate calligraphic style in red, blue, yellow, black and gold inks, the first page with several large Gothic capitals, some flaking of the black ink, slight fold separations at margin and a narrow strip at central fold lacking (neither affecting text). AN UNUSUALLY ORNATE LETTER OF CREDENCE INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN MINISTER TO THE CHILEAN PRESIDENT. "...Major General Judson Kilpatrick, one of our distinguished citizens...[is] to reside near the Government of the Republic of Chile in the quality of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary...He is well apprised of the friendship which we bear to your Government, and of our desire to cultivate the harmony and good correspondence so happily subsisting between us..." RARE.