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- GLC#
- GLC09367
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- April 11, 1831
- Author/Creator
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
- Title
- to Harriet Buchanan
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. :
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
The only U.S. president who never married, to his sister Harriet: "When you have determined (as I trust you will not) never to marry I shall cheerfully provide you a comfortable home. It would afford me great pleasure & promote my own comfort & happiness to have you for a house keeper. Still I think you ought to marry, should a favorable opportunity offer. There is nothing very desirable in the situation of an old maid; still it is less comfortless than that of an unhappy wife."
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