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TYLER, John (1790-1862), President. Autograph letter signed ("John Tyler"), as Senator, to his daughter Mary, Washington, 16 February 1831. 1½ pages, folio, with autograph envelope bearing AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED ("Free, J. Tyler, U. S. S.").
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TYLER, John (1790-1862), President. Autograph letter signed ("John Tyler"), as Senator, to his daughter Mary, Washington, 16 February 1831. 1½ pages, folio, with autograph envelope bearing AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED ("Free, J. Tyler, U. S. S.").
TYLER WARNS HIS DAUGHTER AGAINST "THAT...SWARM OF BUSY-BODIES WHO ARE FOUND EVERY WHERE AND WHOSE WHOLE CONCERN AND CHIEF DELIGHT CONSISTS IN TALKING SLANDER"
A long and affectionate letter to his eldest child, his 16-year old daughter, describing an iced-in capital and counseling her to avoid scandal-mongers: "The Potomac is froze up to its mouth and is passed without difficulty. The inhabitants on its banks attend market in Alexandria and here, on the ice, transporting their commodities in sleighs & unless the weather breaks I scarcely know how to get home." Tyler's letter also enclosed one from Mary's cousin John [not present], and her father cautions her: "It would be improper for you to answer John's letter, for the world is so censorious that a young lady cannot be too particular in her course of conduct. The near relationship between you would still leave you liable to the talk of that tribe or rather swarm of busy-bodies who are found every where and whose whole concern and chief delight consists in talking slander, and indulging in injurious whispers." Tyler is "delighted my dear daughter to receive so many assurances from many quarters of your attention to your studies and progress in them, as well as encomiums upon you for correct deportment. I frequently hear of you through others who write to me..." In 1835 Mary Tyler married Henry Jones, a Virginia planter. Sadly, she died young, aged 33, in 1848.
TYLER WARNS HIS DAUGHTER AGAINST "THAT...SWARM OF BUSY-BODIES WHO ARE FOUND EVERY WHERE AND WHOSE WHOLE CONCERN AND CHIEF DELIGHT CONSISTS IN TALKING SLANDER"
A long and affectionate letter to his eldest child, his 16-year old daughter, describing an iced-in capital and counseling her to avoid scandal-mongers: "The Potomac is froze up to its mouth and is passed without difficulty. The inhabitants on its banks attend market in Alexandria and here, on the ice, transporting their commodities in sleighs & unless the weather breaks I scarcely know how to get home." Tyler's letter also enclosed one from Mary's cousin John [not present], and her father cautions her: "It would be improper for you to answer John's letter, for the world is so censorious that a young lady cannot be too particular in her course of conduct. The near relationship between you would still leave you liable to the talk of that tribe or rather swarm of busy-bodies who are found every where and whose whole concern and chief delight consists in talking slander, and indulging in injurious whispers." Tyler is "delighted my dear daughter to receive so many assurances from many quarters of your attention to your studies and progress in them, as well as encomiums upon you for correct deportment. I frequently hear of you through others who write to me..." In 1835 Mary Tyler married Henry Jones, a Virginia planter. Sadly, she died young, aged 33, in 1848.