Robert Tyler, Williamsburg, Virginia to Boswell Seawell, Esq., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1841 February 7

Item — Box: 4, Folder: 1

Identifier: id87742

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Letter, 1841 February 7, Robert Tyler, Williamsburg, Virginia to Boswell Seawell, Esq., New Orleans, Louisiana

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Scope and Contents

Acknowledges receipt of letter from Seawell; complains of all the rain they have been having; relates news of their mututal friends in Williamsburg; the Vice-President is tolerably well, and is "I believe daily expecting a visit from General Harrison -- what between public and private matters everyminut of his time is employed and for the most part unhappily employed. For the cares of his office are already little less than the cares of the man and it is absurd to suppose that any man of his temperment and rank in life can be happy without being rich." Mother unwell; birth of his daughter. 4 pp. ALS

Dates

Creation: 1841 February 7

Creator

From the Collection: Tyler, John, 1790-1862 (Person)
From the Collection: Ellis, Pearl Tyler, 1860-1947 (Person)
From the Collection: Semple, James (Person)
From the Collection: Semple, Letitia Tyler, 1821-1907 (Person)
From the Collection: Spencer, Julia Gardiner Tyler, 1849-1871 (Person)
From the Collection: Tyler Family (Family)
From the Collection: Tyler, David Gardiner, 1846-1927 (Person)
From the Collection: Tyler, John, Jr., 1819-1896 (Person)
From the Collection: Tyler, Julia Gardiner, 1820-1889 (Person)
From the Collection: Tyler, Lachlan, 1851-1902 (Person)
From the Collection: Tyler, Letitia Christian, 1790-1842 (Person)
From the Collection: Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935 (Person)
From the Collection: Tyler, Robert, 1816-1878 (Person)
From the Collection: Tyler, Robert Fitzwater, 1856-1927 (Person)
From the Collection: Tyler, Tazewell, 1830-1874 (Person)

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English

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