Box Number

5

Folder

5

Item Description

Letter, July 1, 1827, from Hermitage, published November 1905, expressing pleasure at the safe arrival home of ''your dear Mary and your sweet little daughter. . . and reporting that ''the powers that be thro their panders, have been having out all their vials of wrath against me, that falsehood and forgery could invent . . . to induce the ignorant and unwary to believe that I have been using the public money and applying it to my use, contrary to law. -- The vigilance of my friend Eaton in this, has entirely discomfitted them. . . The accounts were obtained certified by the proper officer and lo and behold there was only about $7000 difference . . . When men high in office descend to such baseness and falsehood to injure me, what will they not do to retain power. . . The coalition having been thus met, defeated on all their attempts to disgrace me by their vile slanders, are for the present palsied . . .''

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)