Box Number

5

Folder

5

Item Description

Letter, February 5, 1828, from Hermitage, published December 1905, regretting he could not attend a dinner to which Call had invited him, and describing a scene ''presented by the eighteen steamboats, and the shipping in the harbor . . . The division being formed, the Pocahontas wheeled down the river, the cloud disappeared, and when passing the city, the sun shone out with unusual splendor, spreading over the city the most delightful rainbow I ever witnessed. You can figure to yourselves the magnificence of the scene, the smoke arising in columns from eighteen steamboats, the sun shining, and the cannon roaring from the batteries, the steamboats and vessels with all their colors displayed. I can only add it was the greatest sight I ever saw.''

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)