Manuscripts

William G. Brownlow, Nashville, letter to unidentified recipient

Description: Letter signed. Addressed to "Dear General." Regarding the state of things in Tennessee. (3 pages)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1868 August 21
Call number: HM 8220
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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