Box Number

5

Folder

5

Item Description

Letter, November 21, 1826, from Hermitage, published December 1901, concerning ''the melancholy intelligence of the death of your two little twin daughters and Jackson Butler . . . we ought to rejoice at their change from this world of evil and woe to those heavenly climes where happiness forever reigns . . . With all my philosophy, and whilst I cheerfully submit to the will of providence, I cannot but regret the untimely fate of my little favorite namesake . . . I am happy that the unpleasant difference between you and Col. White has been satisfactorily and honorably adjusted. . . The faction in this State is buried, and harmony prevails the whole -- and the Executive influence cannot devide it -- we will have peace and harmony. . .''

Box Description

CALL FAMILY PAPERS (continued)

Folder Description

Andrew Jackson letters (photocopies), 1812-1842, 20 pp. (containing 22 letters), as published in The Collector: A Magazine for Autograph and Historical Collectors, between 1901 and 1908. Jackson wrote the letters to Richard K. Call from Washington, D.C. or from Nashville or the Hermitage, Tennessee. They concern personal and family matters as well as public affairs and figures, national politics and government, Florida events, military events, and other matters. The letters were apparently sold to The Collector editor Walter R. Benjamin by Ellen Call Long in 1900 or 1901 (see letters dated July 28, 1900 and October 10, 1900, Benjamin to Long, Box 1, Folder 15, Items 3 and 4). (From U.N.C. #2293-B)