Manuscripts

Andrew Johnson, Nashville, letter to Robert Johnson

Description: Autograph letter signed. Regarding Robert Johnson's resignation from his regiment, and Andrew Johnson's disappointment. In pencil. (2 pages)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1863 November 21
Call number: HM 8211
Creator: Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Anderson Galleries, George S. Hellman collection sale, November 1919. Collection had been given by Johnson's daughter Martha Patterson to her friend Laura Carter Holloway Langford, author of The Ladies of the White House; or, In the Home of the Presidents (1870). Langford apparently sold the material to New York collector George S. Hellman.

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