BIB_ID
359005
Accession number
MA 811.49
Creator
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.
Display Date
1838 Jan. 23.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 30.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Major Wm. B. Lewis / 2nd auditor / Treasury Department / Washington."
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
Enclosing a letter (not extant) "from an old Negro woman liberated by Mr Allexander Donelson"; writing that "all her family but herself & husband has left her for Liberia -- her son & daughter, John & Celia, has reached Liberia -- and have lost their three children"; writing "[t]he old woman is anxious to reach them" and asking Lewis to give her letter to "the secretary of the colonization society in Washington with a request that he ... have it sent to them."
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