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- GLC#
- GLC03243.02
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 19 June 1856
- Author/Creator
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
- Title
- to William Sipes re: regrets that Sipes has written his biography
- Place Written
- Wheatland, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 19.5 cm, Width: 12.2 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Buchanan also politely declines to read Sipes' manuscript. He claims that the materials for a biography would have to come from himself in order to be accurate. Also, "an eminent literary friend offered to write my Biography & I gratefully accepted the offer, in case I should deem this necessary."
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