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Doesn't think any other assessor will be appointed for several months. 1 p. ALS. Including AN, [by John Tyler, Jr.], summarizing this letter and that of 30 Nov[embe[r 1872. 1 p.

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Has written Senator Askins of Apalachicola on his behalf; urges him to speak to people about getting either of them appointed temporary attorney general. 2 pp. ALS.

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Has written Gov. [Harrison] Reed about the necessity of counting the electoral vote before 4 December or else Florida will not be able to cast its votes for Grant and Wilson. 5 pp. ALS. Including AN, [by John Tyler, Jr.], summariinzg contents of letter and his reply. 1 p.

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Happy to hear the results of the Florida election; "the South has only to forget that she has done wrong and no one in the north will remember that there has been a war." 2 pp. ALS. Including AN, [by John Tyler, Jr.], summarizing contents of letter. 1 p.

Scope and Contents Doesn't care if he does go to hell for hating Bowes; Senator Gleason told him [SB] he voted against Walton because he hired Bowes; left Florida because Walton upheld Bowes and Ramsden after he [STB] forbade the latter to strike Shakespeare; supports him for the Senate, but he will have to get all the support he can to combat the influence of the scoundrels who are also running; has prepared a place for him to stay if he comes to Washington, D.C.; fears a smallpox outbreak; suggests he courts...

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Will try to find him a place to live; glad he is moving the assessor's office to Jacksonville. 1 p. ALS. Including AN, [by John Tyler, Jr.], summarizing contents of letter.

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The Circuit court is meeting; believes federal principles should dominate state ones, when there is a conflict; Senator [Thomas W.] Osborn tells him a movement is underfoot to throw out enough Republican votes in the South to give those states to [Horace] Greeley. 2 pp. ALS.

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Walker and Gen. [Jesse Johnson] Finley are the Democratic contenders for the Senate seat. 2 pp. ALS.

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Sends him a letter to deliver to Walton; has talked to Walker about running for office. 2 pp. ALS.

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Will meet him in Tallahassee on Tuesday; doesn't think his plan to reduce the number of assistant assessors will work; new revenue bill does away with assessors and assistants anyway. 1 p. ALS. Including AN, [by John Tyler, Jr.], summarizing contents of letter. 1 p.

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He needs to write a letter to the Commissioner stating the reasons for moving his office to Jacksonville. 1 p. 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,...