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)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1861 January 8
Call number: HM 8217
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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