Record ID:
358705
Accession number:
MA 811.9
Credit:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1912.
Description:
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 32 cm
Notes:
Addressed to "Major Wm. B. Lewis / Nashville / Tennessee."
With trace of a seal.
Docketed.
Marked "Private" at the top of the page.
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.
Summary:
Asking him to write with news from Nashville; discussing the 1824 presidential election and noting that "rumors say that deep intrigue is on foot"; saying that he is "content" -- "Mrs. J. & myself at home chatting & smoking our pipe & thinking of our Tennessee friends."
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan with the Ford collection before 1912.
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