Box Number

5

Folder

5

Item Description

Letter, September 9, 1842, from Hermitage, published April 1905, thanking Call for ''giving me your lucid views of the scenes during the invasion of New Orleans, by the British forces in 1815 . . . The illiberal attempt by the majority of the senate, and particularly by Mr. Conrad of New Orleans, to throw censure upon me uninvited and founded in falsehood, made it necessary for me to notice the assault -- and your communication just received, is the more highly appreciated, and will be important to the faithful historian. . . I am still greatly debilitated, but slowly improving -- it will give us great pleasure to see you at the Hermitage.''

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)