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JACKSON, Andrew. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson"), as U.S. Senator, TO HIS WIFE RACHEL JACKSON, Washington City, 8 April 1824. 1 page, folio, creases reinforced on verso.
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JACKSON, Andrew. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson"), as U.S. Senator, TO HIS WIFE RACHEL JACKSON, Washington City, 8 April 1824. 1 page, folio, creases reinforced on verso.
"I AM TRULY WEARIED OF WASHINGTON", Jackson tells his wife back home in Tennessee, "and anxious to return to you; but I cannot leave here until a vote taken on the Tariffs & some other business acted on; such as the claim of the Georgia commissioners; and the Bill authorizing the lands in Florida to be surveyed..." He also mentions sending along--in the care of "George," presumably his slave--horses belonging to "Major Eaton" as well as a portrait of Eaton. Jackson and Rachel Donelson Robards married in 1791, before her divorce from Lewis Robards had become final. Jackson only realized the error in 1794, and remarried Rachel that year. Opponents used the episode to attack Jackson as a bigamist in the 1828 campaign, and he became that the attacks hastened his wife death in 1828. When the wives of his Cabinet members shunned Secretary of War John Eaton's wife, the former Peggy O'Neal, for her supposed immorality, Jackson defended her. For him, the attacks on Mrs Eaton were a replay of the infamies visited upon his late wife, and the issue bitterly divided the Cabinet until Eaton resigned in 1831. ONLY 5 LETTERS FROM JACKSON TO HIS WIFE HAVE APPEARED AT AUCTION IN THE LAST 40 YEARS.
"I AM TRULY WEARIED OF WASHINGTON", Jackson tells his wife back home in Tennessee, "and anxious to return to you; but I cannot leave here until a vote taken on the Tariffs & some other business acted on; such as the claim of the Georgia commissioners; and the Bill authorizing the lands in Florida to be surveyed..." He also mentions sending along--in the care of "George," presumably his slave--horses belonging to "Major Eaton" as well as a portrait of Eaton. Jackson and Rachel Donelson Robards married in 1791, before her divorce from Lewis Robards had become final. Jackson only realized the error in 1794, and remarried Rachel that year. Opponents used the episode to attack Jackson as a bigamist in the 1828 campaign, and he became that the attacks hastened his wife death in 1828. When the wives of his Cabinet members shunned Secretary of War John Eaton's wife, the former Peggy O'Neal, for her supposed immorality, Jackson defended her. For him, the attacks on Mrs Eaton were a replay of the infamies visited upon his late wife, and the issue bitterly divided the Cabinet until Eaton resigned in 1831. ONLY 5 LETTERS FROM JACKSON TO HIS WIFE HAVE APPEARED AT AUCTION IN THE LAST 40 YEARS.