Box Number

5

Folder

5

Item Description

Letter, May 18, 1828, from Hermitage, published December 1905: ''While absent at New Orleans, my political enemies have opened a general and systematic attack upon me -- the last dying struggle of a desperate coalition. Clay . . . has written a book -- Clay ought to have remembered the adage, 'Oh! that mine enemy would write a book'. . . Cartloads of . . . the most base calumnies are circulated by the franking privilege of members of Congress. Even Mrs. J. is not spared, and my pious mother nearly fifty years in her tomb . . . has been . . . held up to scorn as a prostitute -- inter married with a negro -- and my oldest brother sold as a slave in North Carolina. . . My philosophy is almost worn out, but all my enemies expect is to urge me to some rash act. This they cannot do until the election is over. If my hands are not tied by the event there will be a final settlement. . .''

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)