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Manuscripts
John A. Dix, Paris, letter to Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C
- Description
Autograph letter signed, with addressed envelope and seal. Sending his resignation as minister to France. (2 pages)
- Date
- 1869 February 12
- Call number
- HM 8219
- 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.
