Manuscripts
Isham Green Harris, Nashville, letter to Mrs. L.C. Brown
- Description
Autograph letter signed. Discusses Tennessee and the state of the Union, Johnson's speech, secession, the future of Tennessee, and predictions on the Confederacy. (4 pages)
- Date
- 1861 January 8
- Call number
- HM 8217
- 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.
- Restrictions
- Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
