Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Andrew Johnson letter to Samuel Carter, Nashville
- Description
Autograph note signed, with addressed envelope. Johnson requests "pure whiskey." In blue pencil, items are mounted. (1 page)
- Date
- 1863 August 7
- Call number
- HM 8210
- 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.
