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Manuscripts
Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., letter to David Trotter Patterson
- Description
Autograph letter signed. Regarding the annexation of Texas and relations with Mexico; the state of the Democratic Party and the 1844 presidential race; and several politicians including Martin Van Buren, Lewis Cass, John Tyler, Henry Clay, Thomas Hart Benton, James K. Polk, and others. Letter also mentions a recent tariff bill defeat. (5 pages)
- Date
- 1844 May 13
- Call number
- HM 8201
- 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.
