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JACKSON, ANDREW, President. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson") as President, to Attorney General Benjamin Franklin Butler, Washington, D.C., 29 October 1835. 1½ pages, 4to, 250 x 200 mm. (10 x 8 in.), seal hole to address panel. [With:] Autograph free frank ("Free Andrew Jackson") on integral address leaf addressed in Jackson's hand to "B.F. Butler Esqr Attorney General for the United States New york."
JACKSON SUMMONS HIS ATTORNEY GENERAL: "I WISH YOU NEAR ME BEFORE I SUBMIT MY MESSAGE TO CONGRESS"
President Jackson calls his Attorney General to Washington: "I have a great desire that you should be here at as early as a day, as your professional business in New York will justify...The opinion in the case submitted to you by Mr. Randall, it will be necessary for you to review -- before it can be submitted to the parties, as, Mr. Rendall informs me, there are some of the parts misapprehended by you, tho, immaterial as to the conclusions to which you have come in your opinion; still, for accuracy, will be proper to be corrected before it is made publick for this purpose. Mr. R. wishes you here -- and as I wish you near me before I submit my message to Congress, I write you this note. I promised Mr. R...that I wished you here, and would write you today, he declined addressing you...My time has been so much occupied that I have not had time to give them but a [quick]...reading, but am hoping to find that you will be accommodated with a situation not only pleasing and profitable to yourself but beneficial to your country..."
Benjamin Franklin Butler (1795-1858), a prominent New York lawyer, served as Attorney General under Jackson and Van Buren from 1833 until 1838, and also served as Secretary of War during the last months of the Jackson administration. Jackson and Butler became close friends during their tenure together; their friendship lasted until Jackson's death in 1845.
JACKSON SUMMONS HIS ATTORNEY GENERAL: "I WISH YOU NEAR ME BEFORE I SUBMIT MY MESSAGE TO CONGRESS"
President Jackson calls his Attorney General to Washington: "I have a great desire that you should be here at as early as a day, as your professional business in New York will justify...The opinion in the case submitted to you by Mr. Randall, it will be necessary for you to review -- before it can be submitted to the parties, as, Mr. Rendall informs me, there are some of the parts misapprehended by you, tho, immaterial as to the conclusions to which you have come in your opinion; still, for accuracy, will be proper to be corrected before it is made publick for this purpose. Mr. R. wishes you here -- and as I wish you near me before I submit my message to Congress, I write you this note. I promised Mr. R...that I wished you here, and would write you today, he declined addressing you...My time has been so much occupied that I have not had time to give them but a [quick]...reading, but am hoping to find that you will be accommodated with a situation not only pleasing and profitable to yourself but beneficial to your country..."
Benjamin Franklin Butler (1795-1858), a prominent New York lawyer, served as Attorney General under Jackson and Van Buren from 1833 until 1838, and also served as Secretary of War during the last months of the Jackson administration. Jackson and Butler became close friends during their tenure together; their friendship lasted until Jackson's death in 1845.