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Scope and Contents Short note accompanying check. 1 p. ALS.

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Scope and Contents Business and family [health] matters. 4 pp. ALS

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Scope and Contents Refers to their trip and mourns the death of his sister; also includes business matters. 2 pp. ALS. Including the ALS from Julia Gardiner to her sister, New York, New York, requesting that she have her [JG] purchases sent to her home. 2 pp.

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Scope and Contents Discusses business matters such as bank payments as well as family and home [garden] happenings. 2 pp. ALS.

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Scope and Contents Requests that some of his printed addresses be distributed by Gardiner to specific persons; comments on his health, crops, and asks Gardiner to get him an English walking stick in New York 2 pp. ALS.

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Scope and Contents Business matters, advice on getting good estimate for property. 2 pp. ALS

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Scope and Contents Discusses business disappointments--postponement of the sale of land in Kentucky and in the sale of his corn;whishes to take advantage of mason's offer to endorse and to negotiate through the banks the note and thereby discharge his obligations to the James River and Kanawha Canal Copany by July 1. 2 pp. ALS

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Scope and Contents Business matters; party season brought to an end by Lent; comments on the social successes of Margaret [Tyler's sister-in-law?]. 2 pp. ALS.

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Scope and Contents Business [banking] matters regarding the payment of bills. 2 pp. ALS.

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Scope and Contents Short business note, travel plans. 1 p. ALS.

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Scope and Contents Encloses letter from American Consul at Glasgow concerning her father's claim to an inheritance; hopes her trip was made without inconvenience; was detained on his return from Old Point by the steamer's broken shaft; all well at home; much rain, no damage to wheat. 2 pp. ALS

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Scope and Contents Comments on the result of potato crop; left Julia and the three youngest children on Staten Island; brought the two largest boys with a view of putting them in school in the area; plans to accompany Julia and the children home' sends greetings to Mrs. Horsford and regards to him [EH]. 2 pp. ALS

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Scope and Contents Instructions on what to do with a deed mailed in a previous letter; gives family news. 2 pp. ALS.

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Scope and Contents Arrangements to meet Robert to attend festivities at the college of William and mary where he [JT] is to address the literary societies; mention of [Henry A.] Wise as a visitor to the College; crops fair, rain frequent; [Hugh Blair] Grigsby will deliver an address before Phi Beta Kappa on the subject of the people of the convention of 1788. 2 pp. ALS

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Scope and Contents Sends suggestions for investigating the status of the Gardiner etate in England and for verifying the connection between the families on both sides of the Atlantic; has not been well for several days; has grieved over the death of Mrs. Horsford. 4 pp. ALS

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Scope and Contents Farming news and notes celebration on 13 May in Jamestown of its founding by settlers, for which he must prepare a history of Virginia. 2 pp. Pst of ALS.

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Scope and Contents Business matters, which he asks Gardiner to look into; states that he is looking for a residence for his wife, who doesn't want to live at "Sherwood Forest," (Charles City County, Virginia) forever. 3 pp. ALS

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Scope and Contents Business matters, including difficulties in getting a loan from the bank; asks Gardiner to talk with someone in New York 3 pp. ALS.

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Scope and Contents Reports meeting agenda. 3 pp. ALS

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Comments on Robert's resolutions adopted by the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, fears Democrats will not succeed in next congressional elections because of the enormous increase in expenditures, mentions statement made by [Henry A.] Wise in Williamsburg that the College [of William and Mary] was "the most superb body of equal size he had ever seen," says of Wise that 'his eye is steadily fixed on 1860" [presidential election], feels that he[JT] is the last of the Virginia...

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Scope and Contents Brief business note asking Gardiner to give enclosed check to portrait artist; predicts hard times due to bad crop. 2 pp. ALS. Including ALS, Julia Gardiner Tyler, "Villa Margarett," [Hampton, Va.], to Col. David L. Gardiner Asks her brother to have Margaret's portrait sent as soon as possible and to put it directly in the care of the steamer's captain. 1 p.

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Scope and Contents Brief note asking Gardiner to conduct some bond exchanges for him. 2 pp. ALS.

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Scope and Contents Business matters, including the payment od debts and a trip to Raleigh, [N.C.], during which he gave 3 speeches; discusses his poor health and the flourishing wheat crops. 4 pp. ALS.

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Scope and Contents Reference to a party going to Jamestown to plant ivy around the old church steeple, led by Edward Everett; mentions difficulties of son, John; comments on Virginia gubernatorial race; his address at the College of William and Mary forthcoming and the rebuilding of the college is estimated to cost $18,200, and will be completed Oct. 1, 1859. 4 pp. ALS. Includes engraving of John Tyler, 1 item.

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Scope and Contents Tyler agrees that a meeting of the Board would prove detrimental to his objective of re-establishing the law scool on solid footing; also inquires if books from West Point [Academy] arrived. 2 pp. ALS. Including TCy of the above ALS. 1 p.