BIB_ID
358800
Accession number
MA 811.31
Creator
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.
Display Date
1828 Sept. [14].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 31.4 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Major Wm. B. Lewis / Nashville / Tennessee."
Day of the month in the date is based on the printed version of this letter (Moser et al.)
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 trace of a seal.
Day of the month in the date is based on the printed version of this letter (Moser et al.)
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 trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan with the Ford collection before 1912.
Summary
Explaining that he sent him the wrong letter yesterday; sending the correct letter, and asking him to hold the other letter "until a safe opportunity offers for its return"; telling him that he is watching over a man "in the last stage of consumption" at his house.
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