Manuscripts
Danville Leadbetter, headquarters Greeneville, letter to Martha Patterson
- Description
Letter signed. Written to Johnson's daughter regarding the use of the Johnson family house as a military hospital by the Confederacy. (3 pages)
- Date
- 1861 November 29
- Call number
- HM 8197
- 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.
- Restrictions
- Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
