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JACKSON, ANDREW, President. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson") as President, to Postmaster General Amos Kendall, Rep Ross, 31 July 1835. 1 page, 4to, 255 x 208mm. (10 x 8 in.), integral address leaf in Jackson's hand, small seal hole in blank margin, otherwise fine.
OLD HICKORY'S SUMMER VACATION: "MY GENERAL HEALTH IS IMPROVED [AND] THE CHILDREN...[ARE] FAT AS LITTLE PIGS"
From his summer home near Washington, President Jackson forwards a letter (no longer present) and ends on a personal note: "Having received the enclosed from an aged friend, whom I have long known and enjoyed his friendship -- knowing too that he would recommend nothing that he did not believe was for the public good I send it to you for your consideration -- he is a man of great influence in his part of the country, and upwards of 70 years old. If you have rec[eive]d the opinion of the atto[rney] gen[era]l in the case of Stockton et al., I would like to be informed of the result. I am much afflicted here, as I was at the City with headache -- my general health is improved -- the children all well, & fat as little pigs -- we are comfortably fixed & would be glad to see you here..."
Postmaster General Kendall (1789-1869) became a member of Jackson's infamous 'Kitchen Cabinet.' The President abandoned regular cabinet meetings in favor of informal meetings after all but one of his appointed Cabinet members' wives refused to receive Mrs. Peggy Eaton, the wife of a close friend, as she had a bad reputation in Washington society. Kendall formally replaced William T. Barry as Postmaster General in 1835.
Provenance: Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang (sale, Sotheby-Parke Bernet, 26 April 1978, lot 136).
OLD HICKORY'S SUMMER VACATION: "MY GENERAL HEALTH IS IMPROVED [AND] THE CHILDREN...[ARE] FAT AS LITTLE PIGS"
From his summer home near Washington, President Jackson forwards a letter (no longer present) and ends on a personal note: "Having received the enclosed from an aged friend, whom I have long known and enjoyed his friendship -- knowing too that he would recommend nothing that he did not believe was for the public good I send it to you for your consideration -- he is a man of great influence in his part of the country, and upwards of 70 years old. If you have rec[eive]d the opinion of the atto[rney] gen[era]l in the case of Stockton et al., I would like to be informed of the result. I am much afflicted here, as I was at the City with headache -- my general health is improved -- the children all well, & fat as little pigs -- we are comfortably fixed & would be glad to see you here..."
Postmaster General Kendall (1789-1869) became a member of Jackson's infamous 'Kitchen Cabinet.' The President abandoned regular cabinet meetings in favor of informal meetings after all but one of his appointed Cabinet members' wives refused to receive Mrs. Peggy Eaton, the wife of a close friend, as she had a bad reputation in Washington society. Kendall formally replaced William T. Barry as Postmaster General in 1835.
Provenance: Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang (sale, Sotheby-Parke Bernet, 26 April 1978, lot 136).