Box Number

5

Folder

5

Item Description

Letter, July, 1826, from Hermitage, published March 1905, advising Call not to trust politicians ''until from actual experience it is found that the individual is worthy of it. . .'' and discussing the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams: ''I have been led here to make arrangements for paying the respect due to the . . . sage of Monticello, the father of liberty, the patron of science, and the author of our declaration of independence, who had the boldness to declare to the Despots of Europe in 1776, that we of right ought to be free. . . Jefferson is no more, he died on the 4th instant 10 minutes before one p.m. On yesterday when just to make the arrangements for this melancholy occasion, the mail brought us the sad intelligence that another of the signers of the declaration of independence was no more, that John Adams had departed this life on the 4th instant at 6 oclock p.m.''

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)