Manuscripts

Andrew Johnson, Greeneville, Tennessee, letter to Robert Johnson, Nashville

Description: Autograph letter signed, with addressed envelope and franking signature. Discusses the position of state geologist and Tennessee state politics; the recharter of banks, the currency issue, and banking; and activities in Greeneville. (8 pages)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1859 October 20
Call number: HM 8206
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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