JACKSON, Andrew. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson"), as President, to Mrs. Emma Donelson, WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED "FREE ANDREW JACKSON", Washington, 28 February 1837. 2 pages, 4to, autograph address panel with free frank .
JACKSON, Andrew. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson"), as President, to Mrs. Emma Donelson, WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED "FREE ANDREW JACKSON", Washington, 28 February 1837. 2 pages, 4to, autograph address panel with free frank . "WE WILL SET OUR FROM HERE ON THE 6TH PROXIMO..." JACKSON PLANS HIS ESCAPE ROUTE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AT THE END OF HIS TERM One of the last letters Andrew Jackson wrote as President, just four days before the Inauguration of his successor Martin Van Buren. "I hasten to inform you," he tells his pregnant niece Emma Donelson, "that we will set out from here on the 6th proximo, and hope to reach Wheeling the 14 or 15th if I am able to bear the journey. My advice is, if your [physicians] approve, to set out and by easy days journey, meet us at Wheeling, when I will with pleasure take charge of you and your dear little daughter and deliver you safe to your dear husband. We expect to travel from Wheeling all the way to Nashville by water. One of your brothers will, surely, go with you and see you safe to Wheeling, where I will with pleasure take charge of you..." Jackson's continuously poor health only seemed to worsen as the final days of his term drew near: "I am labouring under severe headache this morning and can scarcely hold the pen. I can only add that I hope your health will enable you to join us at Wheeling..." Four days later, his last in the White House, Jackson sat up late with some of his closest aides. He signed off on the copy of the farewell address that Roger Taney drafted for him, drank a glass of Madeira, puffed on his corn cob pipe, and watched the clock in the room as it moved toward midnight. When the hour struck he happily commented: "Gentlemen, I am no longer President of the United States, but as good a citizen as any of you. I am very glad to get away from all this excitement and bother" (Remini, 3:419).
JACKSON, Andrew. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson"), as President, to Mrs. Emma Donelson, WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED "FREE ANDREW JACKSON", Washington, 28 February 1837. 2 pages, 4to, autograph address panel with free frank .
JACKSON, Andrew. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson"), as President, to Mrs. Emma Donelson, WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED "FREE ANDREW JACKSON", Washington, 28 February 1837. 2 pages, 4to, autograph address panel with free frank . "WE WILL SET OUR FROM HERE ON THE 6TH PROXIMO..." JACKSON PLANS HIS ESCAPE ROUTE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AT THE END OF HIS TERM One of the last letters Andrew Jackson wrote as President, just four days before the Inauguration of his successor Martin Van Buren. "I hasten to inform you," he tells his pregnant niece Emma Donelson, "that we will set out from here on the 6th proximo, and hope to reach Wheeling the 14 or 15th if I am able to bear the journey. My advice is, if your [physicians] approve, to set out and by easy days journey, meet us at Wheeling, when I will with pleasure take charge of you and your dear little daughter and deliver you safe to your dear husband. We expect to travel from Wheeling all the way to Nashville by water. One of your brothers will, surely, go with you and see you safe to Wheeling, where I will with pleasure take charge of you..." Jackson's continuously poor health only seemed to worsen as the final days of his term drew near: "I am labouring under severe headache this morning and can scarcely hold the pen. I can only add that I hope your health will enable you to join us at Wheeling..." Four days later, his last in the White House, Jackson sat up late with some of his closest aides. He signed off on the copy of the farewell address that Roger Taney drafted for him, drank a glass of Madeira, puffed on his corn cob pipe, and watched the clock in the room as it moved toward midnight. When the hour struck he happily commented: "Gentlemen, I am no longer President of the United States, but as good a citizen as any of you. I am very glad to get away from all this excitement and bother" (Remini, 3:419).
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