BIB_ID
358732
Accession number
MA 811.12
Creator
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.
Display Date
1825 Feb. 27.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 31.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Major Wm. B. Lewis / Nashville / Tennessee."
Docketed.
Part of a collection of 58 letters from Andrew Jackson to Major William B. Lewis. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 811 for more details.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Docketed.
Part of a collection of 58 letters from Andrew Jackson to Major William B. Lewis. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 811 for more details.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan with the Ford collection before 1912.
Summary
Sending him a paper to have "republished in such papers in Nashville as [Lewis] may deem best"; mentioning [Joseph] Gales and [William Winston] Seaton, editors of the National Intelligencer; referring to an exposé by Mr. Kremers, and noting that he has heard it is "strong" and "will carry conviction every where of the corruption of [Henry] Clay & others."
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