MARTIN VAN BUREN * PSA * Autograph FREE FRANK Envelope Signed * WASHINGTON DC PAUL McCARTNEY & GEORGE MARTIN America’s first great man of

America’s first great man of letters and the beloved author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle declines an opportunity to visit due to a shocking case of smallpox in his household and concerns over community contagion in an undated

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"Mark Twain" and countersigned by artist Otto Schneider

MARTIN VAN BUREN * PSA * Autograph FREE FRANK Envelope Signed * WASHINGTON DC PAUL McCARTNEY & GEORGE MARTIN America’s first great man of8th President of the United States MARTIN VAN BUREN undated handwritten autograph Free Frank envelope from Washington, DC. Van Buren addresses the envelope to "Mr. Horatio Woodman, Exeter, N. Hampshire, and franks at upper right as, "Free, M. Van Buren". Postmarked at Washington, April 20 with a 'FREE' ink stamp over a portion of the signature. Van Buren was the first U. S. President born in the United States, not an English colony. won the presidency