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Lot 143

Sale 5183 - Books & Manuscripts
Feb 18, 2021 5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$800 - 1,200
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[Presidential] Jackson, Andrew Autograph Letter, annotated

Walnut Grove, (Virginia), Jun 1, 1830. 1 pp., on one sheet folded to make four pages; 9 7/8 x 8 in. (250 x 203 mm). Autograph letter, docketed by President Andrew Jackson, to American diplomat, Andrew Jackson Donelson (nephew of Jackson), by Judge Lewis Summers, concerning a trip in 1827, when Summers visited Donelson and his aunt, Rachel Jackson (née Donelson). At the end of the letter Summers writes of, "...additional evidence of the estimation in which she (Rachel Jackson) was held at a very gloomy period of her life."; annotated below address by Andrew Jackson, "to be carefully preserved." Creasing from original folds; numerous sello tape repairs; small separations along center fold; scattered soiling; top corner of final page singed.

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