Show nITISG Or rnESIDENTS JItJWEITING Collection Antograpl tu r 10 Files of the Senate in tlic March 151n the cxccu tsIjIGTON W Slll Senate there are pre of f the tlve ofhce 0 messages of the executive ervd 11 11 the the United States from the of 1o 1 > idents 0 Government Though Of the foundation docu rcferrcd to some of these not t 0 ten r worn and recently becoming ments rC of the Senate arCc k theSecret l1 00 un Mc be made from the to cluse1 C1CCtjOflS I preserving some of ew to I I with a I fi1e autograPhs in a cabinel t the interesting au o JPears from this col It a1pears bc helnls l of tIle Presidents with lection that noneo Washington and Jeffer the ece1ti0n marked above 50 for pen son would be Civil u Service CommisSion Inans1IP by a contribution to the collection Wasbintom1s first nominations for Judges hctlOn cinbodi for the dIstrIct 11 la 8hal ir 1 nd Attorneys NewJersey and at tlJS TV ew York md documents are the nom timtl oft rT e Jefferson Edmund mations of Thomas Samuel Qsgood for Secre Kandolp J f d At ntGeneral and Post tan of State Siveiv Tho siipia < c mnsterGe1 er < respec fair legible hand WTittCfl Ifl i a tire 15 wrmel3 today for that of a man < S wInch would pass et careless of appearances yet not entirely cdenco enough in Ins own baring lCtOJltlfie jCtZi1S of penmanship take work to let the carl of TcSn penned his signature with l > but his economy of space was e1 ace t his documents as a whole fall EUt1Xat J r clerical present standard of ex the beZIOW f lie wrote most of his messages niAAb own hand 11 jlb the 11In all of John Adams signatures inch half nnall letters are more than an long In his message of July 2 1798 nominating Washington to Lieutenant General an unsuccessful attempt appears to have been made to write the whole document on the same ample scale Mr Madison wrote an irregular hand devoid of marked peculiarities Mr Monroe used a coarse pen and wrote liesitatingly Andrew Jacksons first message dated March G 1829 is an autograph document throughout and more than any other one of the series its style seems characteristic charac-teristic of its author Its letters are angular an-gular and unsyminetrical l but they are legible and there is an air of selfassertion about the document which culminates in the emphatic underscoring of the signature signa-ture Martin Tan Burens hand was unsteady vhen he penned his first message but he wrote better the next day James K Polks contribution to the collection is an autograph message penned in what would be taken for a feminine Land yet with few of the graces of penmanship pen-manship His autograph is rather pretentious pre-tentious with a row of dots and several cramped flourishes beneath it Harrisons and Tylers signatures have no distinguishing characteristics TaYlor and Lincoln each wrote firmly and legibly but with extreme simplicit and without any superflous marks Millard Mil-lard Fillmores signature is very similar theirs in character but rather smoother James Buchanans hand trembled when he signed his first message and he made failure of the elaborate scrollwork at tchment to his first initial Franklin i tierce wrote a sprawling schoolboy sig I ature Andrew Johnson started fairly on the line then fell a little below it but recovered himself at the endNew York Sun |