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A poem for her birthday. 1 p. AMsS.

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Regards financial "plunder" of [Congressman] Purman, who he feels will not be re-elected; recommending Jefferson B. Browne for West Point. 1 p. ALS.

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Requests to be appointed to the Supreme Bench of the State to fill the vacancy left by Judge Frassier's resignation. 1 p. ACyS of ALS.

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Informs him he demands to be appointed to the Supreme Bench of the State; lists his previous Court experience. 3 pp. ACyS of ALS.

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Requests them to publish an editorial letter answering charges against him and his brothers and sisters made in an article "President Tyler's Time." 1 p. ACyS of ALS. Including ANS by John Tyler, Jr. summarizing letter.

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Has called [Governor] Stearns' attention to his [Tyler's] desire [to be appointed to the Supreme Bench of the State]. 1 p. ALS.

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Concerns Tyler's desire to be appointed to the Supreme Bench of the State; doesn't think he [EMR] could be of any help; notes those being considered for the position. 3 pp. ALS.

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Likes Tyler and Dyke's "New South" idea, and if he can he will have Adams make an agreement with them [to publish it?]. 3 pp. ALS.

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[Governor] Stearns has made a mistake in appointing the As[sistan]t Justice; has been reading Dkye's editorials in The Floridian, articles which do wonders for the Republican party, Van Valkenburg, and [Governor] Stearns, despite their opposite intentions. 5 pp. ALS.

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Describes how hard she must work, and how tired she gets; Bessie [Dennison] is better now; speaks of other family members. 4 pp. ALS.

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Describes her bad financial situation and need to live in a charitable institution; has heard Mrs. [Julia Gardiner] Tyler won the law suits and has repaired "Sherwood" [a Tyler estate]. 4 pp. ALS.

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Requests Tyler to take every other hour of meal time with him; also advises that he not get reinvolved in politics. 1 p. ALS.

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His [JAS] vessel is out of commission and he has been ordered to Richmond but will not go. 1 p. ALS.

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Will finalize the agreement after Congress adjourns; wants Tyler to apply for position as Registrar in Bankruptcy for the 1st Congressional District. 2 pp. ALS.

Scope and Contents Discusses the need to establish a national "Conservative Republican organ" with the "New National Idea and Party Combination" being represented in 1876 by U[lysses] S[impson] Grant for president and John B. Gordon for vice-president; mentions the personal, political and family vilifications he encountered when he supported Grant and the Republican Party; notes his feelings about being appointed Registrar in Bankruptcy and the problems he had as Assessor of the U.S. Internal Revenue Dept. in...

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Comments on the State Republican Party leaders' disinclination to heed his advice, the following of which Tyler feels is the only way to "escape being crushed under the heel of the State Administration Northern Carpet-baggin, or being tacked onto the Bourbon Democracy as a mere tail..." 2 pp. ACyS of ALS.

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Invites Tyler to join them in Pisgah next Sunday, and invites him to a Camp meeting between Pisgah and Concord commencing August 23rd. 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,...