Letter from Jeremiah Black to Alexander McClure

Letter from Jeremiah Black to Alexander McClure
Number of Pages: 
10
Date: 
August 7, 1883

Jeremiah Sullivan Black writes Alexander Kelly McClure and criticizes George Ticknor Curtis' 2 volume biography of President James Buchanan, Life of Buchanan (1883). Black, who served as Attorney General and Secretary of State during President James Buchanan's administration, writes this letter on his sick bed twelve days before he died. McClure is editor of The Philadelphia Times. Transcript included.

Time Period: 
Location: 
I-BeachW-2003-1
Origin: 
Gift of Walter E. Beach