Box Number

5

Folder

5

Item Description

Letter, February 13, 1821, from Nashville, published November 1905, bemoaning the reduction of the army by Congress and conveying the news that ''The Floridas are ceded and I have at last received a letter from the President and one from the Sec. of War requesting that I would accept of the Government of that country. . .''

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)