Manuscripts

Andrew Johnson signed checks, Washington, D.C

Description: Two documents signed. One check made out to "self," the other to the president of Georgetown College. Items are mounted together. (1 page)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1866 September 18, 1868 November 17
Call number: HM 8198, 8199
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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Associated people: Johnson, Eliza McCardle, (1810-1876,); Johnson, Robert, (1834-1869,); Patterson, David Trotter, (1818-1891,); Patterson, Martha Johnson, (1828-1901,)
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