John Tyler, Sherwood Forest, to "Mr. Wheaton," dated June 9, 1856. Tyler declines Mr. Wheaton's offer to deliver his lecture "the dead of my Cabinet" before the Poughkeepsie (New York) Lyceum, agrees with him on the advisability of "kindling the fires of fraternal feeling among the people of the Sates" to avoid disunion in the future. Mss. Acc. 2002.16 Addition