Appealing To Newly Inaugurated President Andrew Jackson For Help With Her Dire Economic

by Andrew Decatur Jackson Susan Widow Of U S Naval Hero Stephen Decatur

$1,500 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Washington, DC : 1829. Autograph letter. 4to. 4-pages on a bifolium sheet of paper watermark “Amies Philada.” with their dove mark , approximately 250 words, in part: “My Dear General, I entreat you to send me word of hope or comfort, for my situation is mortifying and distressing beyond all expression! After having been rear’d in affluence and cherish’d through life with the most unbound ed affection, I now find myself overwhelm’d with desolation, and

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