10 lines, on first page of a four-page lettersheet which folds to be an envelope, address & postmark on the fourth page, along with docketing. 10x8.

The future President of the United States, then a senator from Pennsylvania, writes to one of the New Jersey senators, about a planned evening together, "I shall leave here, with my niece...on Monday morning & if I should arrive in Philadelphia in time for the afternoon boat, or car, expect me to be with you on Monday evening. I feel an inclination in favor of the Bordertown School; but yet am strongly inclined to defer to the opinion of the ladies. Ever your friend, James Buchanan." Garret C. Wall, who served a single term as the senator from New Jersey, has the distinction of having been elected governor of the state in 1829, but declined to serve.