Letter from Harriet Lane Johnston to Jeremiah Black

Harriet Lane Johnston writes Judge Jeremiah Sullivan Black to defending her uncle's (President James Buchanan) motives for distribution of offices during his administration.  "One thing I do know," as Johnston explains, is "that if he had an office, it was not given to him as 'a reward' for having written a 'campaign biography of Mr. Buchanan.'"  Transcript included.