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Show v . OLD PLATE FOR MRS. WILSON Part of Buchanan's Service Presented to President's Wife at White House. Washington. Another addition has been made to the White House collection collec-tion of presidential ware In the form of a handsome Sevres dinner plate from a set which belonged to President Presi-dent Buchanan. The gift has just been received by Mrs. Wilson from James Buchanan Henry of Annapolis, Md., a nephew and ward of President Buchanan, who served as his private secretary during Mr. Buchanan's occupancy oc-cupancy of the White House. The plate has an interesting history. his-tory. It belonged to an exquisite set of pink banded Sevres, each piece of which was elaborately decorated, which Mr. Buchanan purchased at the sale of household belongings of the French minister at Washington during the time Mr. Iiuchanan was serving as secretary of state under President Polk in 1815-40. Mr. I'.uchanan prized the china highly high-ly und it was used by him In the White House and subsequently in his home at Wheatland, noar Lancaster. I'a. Upon his death the china came into in-to Mr. Henry's possession. |