Manuscripts

Andrew Johnson, Nashville, letter to Robert Johnson

Description: Autograph letter signed. Regarding Robert Johnson's determination to reform and become sober. In pencil. (2 pages)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1863 November 23
Call number: HM 8212
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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Associated people: Johnson, Eliza McCardle, (1810-1876,); Johnson, Robert, (1834-1869,); Patterson, David Trotter, (1818-1891,); Patterson, Martha Johnson, (1828-1901,)
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