Tulane, Victor:

$850 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

[AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM VICTOR TULANE TO ABRAHAM P. VANKIRK, BLAMING THE CRISIS UNLEASHED BY THE FINANCIAL PANIC OF 1837 ON FORMER PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON AND DESCRIBING HIS EFFORTS TO ... A revealing autograph letter, signed, from Victor Tulane in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Abraham P. Vankirk, a relative in Princeton, New Jersey, written during the height of the panic of 1837, in which he blames the crisis on former President Andrew Jackson, declaring that "old Hickory has played the mischeef with the currency of the Country, as all the Banks here, and all over the Country has stoped payin out Specie," before going on to explain that he is "saving all the Gold and Silver that I get," and advising those back home in New Jersey to "be very saveing...prudent and industrious...as such hard times has not bin seen in the count[r]y since the Ware." Tulane was a member of a prominent family based in and around Princeton, New Jersey, with growing commercial interests in New Orleans. The most notable member of this family was perhaps Paul Tulane (1801–1887), a merchant and philanthropist who, having made his fortune in the manufacture and sale of men's clothing, became the founding benefactor of Tulane University. Paul's father, Louis Tulane (1767–1847), had been born in Tours, France. He immigrated to Saint-Domingue, where his brother-in-law was a wealthy planter, becoming himself a successful lumber merchant. With the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, however, Lou

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.