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PRESIDENTS]. MADISON, JAMES. Partly printed document, [Washington, D.C.], 13 March 1812, 1 page, folio, large paper seal, ON PARCHMENT, engraved vignette of a ship, harbor and lighthouse at top of sheet, accomplished in manuscript. Ship's papers for the "Jeanette Snow, commanded by Thomas McDonough" -- VAN BUREN, MARTIN. Autograph letter signed to William Learned Marcy, Washington, D.C., 16 February 1838, 3 pages, 4to . Good letter to the Governor of New York, Van Buren mentions Senator John C. Calhoun, "It is agreed, on all hands I believe, that Mr. Calhoun made yesterday the best speech of his life..." -- ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO. Typed letter signed to Thomas B. Clark, New York, 13 June 1923, 1 page, 4to, FDR AS AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTOR. Concerning a letter of Richard and Lawrence Yates which Roosevelt had purchased through A.S.W. Rosenbach at a Henkel Auction Sale; sending the letter to Clark [With:] Yates letter purchased by Roosevelt -- WILSON, WOODROW. Typed letter signed to Frederic B. Jennings, Princeton, 26 January 1903, 2 pages, 4to, on rectos only declining a Williams College alumni funtion due to "the shock of my father's death..." -- CLEVELAND, GROVER. Autograph letter signed to Bayard Stockton, Washington, D.C., 25 December 1896, 1 page, 8vo, stamped envelope, White House stationery , regarding payment for services related to the purchase of property -- HAYES, RUTHERFORD. Autograph letter signed, Fremont, 13 May 1889, 1 page, 8vo, complying with a request for an autograph. Together seven items . (7)