Box Number

5

Folder

5

Item Description

Letter, March 17, 1836, from Washington, published July 1903: ''It is with heartfelt sorrow I have read your letter of the 29th ultimo giving me an account of the melancholy death of your dear wife, Mary . . . all there is left to me is to present my heartfelt condolence . . . Your nomination as Governor for Florida was confirmed last evening by the Senate by a unanimous vote -- I send you the journal. Eaton's nomination was also confirmed. . . This disrobes White of his hypocracy in his professions and pledges of friendship to me, and my administration, that deception is now at an end . . .''

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)