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John Tyler: “I avail myself of the opportunity afforded in the performance of this pleasing task to tender you assurances of my high…”

On the recordDecember 15, 1843
I avail myself of the opportunity afforded in the performance of this pleasing task to tender you assurances of my high respect and esteem.
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John Tyler
Whig · Virginia

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