Autographs of 12 Whig members of the 27th Congress. 4 pp on single folded sheet, 25.5x20 cm (10x8").

Includes the signatures of John Quincy Adams (Massachusetts), Leverett Saltonstall (MA), George N. Briggs (MA), William B. Calhoun (MA), Charles Hudson (MA), Joseph Underwood (Kentucky), William Cost Johnson (Maryland), Henry A. Wise (Virginia), Meredith Gentry (Tennessee), Thomas W. Gilmer (VA), and Caleb Cushing (MA). Signed on the rectos of both leaves, with the franking signature of Jacob M. Howard (Michigan), addressed to his wife in Detroit. Postal cancelation dated Mar. 4 at Washington, D.C. Undated but 1841 is the only year that all of these gentlemen served together. March 4th, the date of mailing, was the date of President William Henry Harrison's inaugural address, the longest such speech ever, some 8,443 words, delivered in a howling snowstorm, Harrison would be dead from pneumonia one month later.