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Manuscripts
Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., letter to Robert Johnson, Nashville
- Description
Autograph letter signed, with addressed envelope and franking signature. Regarding Congress, William H. Barksdale's bill proposing the expulsion of free persons of color from Tennessee, the Tennessee state convention, and Stephen A. Douglas as a presidential candidate. (8 pages)
- Date
- 1860 January 12
- Call number
- HM 8207
- 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.
