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Appreciates his efforst to obtain help [financial?] from Virginia Senators and Representatives but having thought about it must decline such aid; has suffered too much humiliation already. 2 pp. Cy of ALS. Includes AN endorsing and summarizing letter. 1 p.

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Will help him collect his essays; has the weekly he poke of packed away and will hunt it up and copy what you wished; or can bring entire volume to him; Mr. Burwell of New Orleans has the loose numbers. 2 pp. ALS. Including AN by John Tyler, Jr., endorsing and summarizing the letter; indicates Tyler wrote back and requested volume brought to Washington. 1 p.

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Has the copy of Abell's Life, Mr. Gillett's letter; the birth and lineage he worked out and Mrs. Halloways' book; this is a "sacred task" [writing a memoir of President Tyler] but will take sometime due to frequent interruptions. 1 p. ALS. Including AN, John Tyler, Jr., explaining letter. 1 p.

Scope and Contents Scope and ContentsHas talked to Dr. Cloud, State Superintendant of Education and Chairman of the Educational Board about his [JT] case; he will write to the President of the University of Alabama, N.A. Luniley [sic] [Lupton]; it seems the chairs he [JT] preferred are not yet filled; suggests he immediately write the men mentioned above; his brother will talk to Mr. Cloud also; Keep politics out of this; has sent manuscript to Claxton, Remson, and Haffelfinger of Philadelphia who...

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Has been in bed or would have answered sooner; it will take time to find out-on the war path for him [JT]  now; come over soon. 1 p. ALS. Including AN, John Tyler, Jr. endorsing letter which is in regards to lecture; answered letter saying to go ahead with arrangements; will share benefits. 1 p.

Scope and Contents Scope and ContentsHas received letter of the 15th; will send help to Mrs. [Susan A.] Eppes through Mrs. Semple; will confer with her about admission of Mrs. "E." to Aged Women's Home. 1 p. ALS. Including ALS from W.W. Corcoran, Wash[in]gton D.C., to Jo[h]n Tyler, Jr., Washington, D.C., 24 Nov. 1869, informing that the place at the cemetary he noted as vacated by Doct[or] Hunter has been filled more than three months ago. Also including ANS John Tyler, Jr., endorsing and...

Scope and Contents Scope and ContentsLetter from mutual friend General John Tyler [Jr.], is really surprising; how can a sane man expect anyone in these times to invest $300,000 in a cure for Hog Cholera or any other invention; friend in California also has a cure for Hog Cholera and he will get a patent for him; if Tyler's friends cure is also valid perhaps they can take out a joint patent; anyone who wants $200,000 for any invention is either a fool or an idiot. 2 pp. ALS. Including ANS by John...

Scope and Contents Has not forgotten him but has many troubles and did not want to bother friends with them; but he has written first; as a lecturer she has been successful; leaves Monday for Pennsylvania, then Michigan and Kentucky; then shall scribble for the newspapers; knows he does not approve of women lecturing but she has a famiyl to support; brother has drawn on her publisher and left her a debt; can he find him?; the world is utterly selfish. 4 pp. ALS. Including AN endorsed and summarizing letter. 1...

Scope and Contents His lodge [of the Knights of Pythias] accepts his proposal; please advertise; lecture will be in Concordia Oprea House or Masonic Temple; pelase state a preferred date. 1 p. ALS. Including AN by [John Tyler, Jr.] endorsing and summarizing letter. 1 p. Also incoluding AN by [Tyler], 28 March 1870, answered lettere as desired. 1 p. Also including AN by [Tyler], 7 april 1870, lecture on the 21st at Concordia Hall. 1 p. Also including AN by [Tyler], 19 April 1870, come on next morning and stop...

Scope and Contents Scope and ContentsEnclosed is a letter from the pen of "Python" which will be republished; read it before interview; has contemplated views on public affairs for 18 months and is now ready to reveal them; of course does not wish to be generally known through his pseudonym. Cy of ALS. Including AN by John Tyler, Jr., endorsing and summarizing letter, indicating that enclosed letter mentioned [but missing] was from the Baltimore Gazette of 25 March 1870. 1 p. Also including ALS...

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Cannot intrude upon him again despite the nature of their short conversation; much is being lost by delay in accepting his suggestion; remember he [JT] organized the Bureau of War of the late Confederate States, served as an officer of Rank and Adjutant General; yet the matter can be revealed only the way he suggests; through the Party at Providence Hospital higher personage can be revealed and all worth knowing be known. 2 pp. Cy of ALS.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Series 1: Group A, Acc. 78 T97 and 1992.63:  Papers, 1856-1895, of John Tyler, Jr., post Civil War Republican Party activist. Subjects covered by the collection include alcoholism, Republican Party politics, Presidential elections, political patronage, Reconstruction, Methodist Episcopal Church, Florida, Braxton Bragg, and the Fenian Brotherhood. Prominent correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Chester Alan Arthur, Pierre G. T. Beauregard, James Gillespie Blaine, James Buchanan,...