- COVID-19 Project
- Home
- Archival Material
- College History Projects
- Subject-Based Digital Projects
- Carlisle Indian School Resources
- LGBT History Project
- Three Mile Island (TMI) Resources
- Civil War Resources
- James Buchanan Resources
- Slavery and Abolition in the U.S.
- Russian and Slavic Resources
- AIFS / AIFS Foundation Collection
- Books of Isaac Norris
- Writings by Dickinsonians
- Digital Images on Flickr
- Dickinson @ Internet Archive
Letter from James Buchanan to Lewis Cass, John B. Floyd, and Jeremiah S. Black

Number of Pages:
4
Date:
May 4, 1859
President James Buchanan writes to Secretary of State Lewis Cass, Secretary of War John B. Floyd, and Attorney General Jeremiah S. Black regarding orders that they need to send to federal officials in Utah. "The State of Affairs in Utah renders it necessary that new & harmonious instructions should be sent to our officials, Civil & Military, in that Territory," as Buchanan explains. Transcript included.
Although the letter itself is not dated, it is docketed on the back with the date May 4, 1859, so it was likely authored on that date or just a day or two before.
Subject:
Format:
Time Period:
Location:
MC 1998.10, B4, F2
Origin:
Gift of Boyd Lee Spahr
Collection: