Letter from Horatio King to J. H. Weeks, Jr.

Horatio King writes to J. H. Weeks, Jr., and explains why Weeks will not receive President James Buchanan's autograph. "I regret that I have no autographed letter of President Buchanan that I am willing to part with," as King notes. In addition, King tells Weeks that "you apparently [have] mistaken my son for me." King served as Postmaster General in President Buchanan's administration from February 1861 to March 7, 1861 while his son, Horatio Collins King, is a member of the Class of 1858.