Letter from James Buchanan to Joseph C. G. Kennedy

Former President James Buchanan writes Joseph Camp Griffith Kennedy regarding his health and finances. "My own heart is good, except that I am a little crippled in walking by the effects of my late very severe attack of rheumatism," as Buchanan explains. Buchanan also notes that "Judge Black has been here [in Wheatland, Pennsylvania] for a day or two." Judge Jeremiah Sullivan Black served as the Attorney General and as Secretary of State during the Buchanan administration. Joseph Kennedy was a statistician and was in charge of the 7th and 8th U.S. Censuses. He also founded a newspaper, the Intelligencer. Transcript included.