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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.

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Scope and Contents Comments on the 1860 presidental election and how the Virginia delegates stand on the candidacies of [Robert M.T.] Hunter, Henry A. Wise, and Stephen Douglass; his speech at a Richmond banquet was highly applauded; Mrs. Tyler's ill health, and his son's handwriting which rivaled Napoleon's.

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Scope and Contents Detailed inventory of property/belongings on estate at his death. 2 pp. D.

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Regrets having taken so long to write; expresses gratification for Mr. Tyler having visited Norfolk, [Va.]; asks for news of the Tyler family. 2 pp. ALS.

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Scope and Contents Reaffirms the beauty and merits of Tidewater Virginia; gives an account of traditoonal social behavior to illustrate the proud cilture of the are; the descendants of the are should have a "sense of their duty not to a single state only, but to the Whole Union." 4 pp. ALS.

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Scope and Contents Regrets it has taken him so long to answer Tyler's letters; offers to publish some of Tyler's writing stating his opinon on the secession question for Virginia; agrees with Tyler's opinion that Virginia must stay with the Union; offers his regards to Mrs. Tyler. 2 pp. ALS, Frag.

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Scope and Contents Accepts invitiation from President and Mrs. Tyler. 1 p. AL.

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Sketches of part of Tyler land somewhere along the Ohio River; sketched by S.R. Carey, 2 pp. AMs.

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Scope and Contents Envelope of letter from John Tyler, to Colonel Samuel S. Gardiner, Abby Manor, Shelton Island, Suffolk County, New York. 1 item. ADS

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Scope and Contents Medical prescription for Honorable John Tyler; Hegeman, Clark, and Company, druggists. 1 p. AN.

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Scope and Contents Five envelopes from President John Tyler, to Alexander Gardiner, New York City, New York. 5 items. ADS.

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Scope and Contents Four envelopes to President John Tyler, Washington City, D.C. 4 items. ADS.

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Scope and Contents William Miller to [?]. Regrets missing [?] in New York; Mr. Wood was nominated by a coalition of "leading men" from the anti-Masonic and working men's parties; speculates on future developments on New York politics. 1 p. ALS. Includes TCy of above ALS. 1 p.

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Scope and Contents Envelopes to President John Tyler, 31 items. AD