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Suggests that Conover make Tyler his friend by appealing to him "in the matter already intimated to you." 1 p. ALS. Including unsigned notes concerning land claims in Florida.

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Informs Tyler that his pictures are ready and asks if he wants them sent to Jacksonville, Florida; mentions extra cost of large mounting boards. 1 p. ACS.

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Due to a promise to his [JT] friends that he wouldn't meddle in politics, he requests that Dyke not publish his article "The Tocsin Sounded." 2 pp. ALS.

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Has been offered a job editing for a paper in New Orleans, Louisiana. 1 p. ALS.

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Has read John's letter concerning "grandfather's" [Judge John Tyler] thoughts on emigration; says John's writing dwells too much on the family; would like to get to know Dr. Hicks; has heard that "some Methodist College in Georgia" almost chose John as it's president; suffering from a bad headache; hopes John is well. 2 pp. ALS.

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Wants to know if Tyler is removing his application for the clerkship; reminds him that any good position attracts many applicants; urges Tyler to get back to him with Tyler's decision. 2 pp. ALS.

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Tells him of Dyke's attempts to get Tyler committed to the application for the clerkship. 2 pp. ALS.

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Thanks Dyke for his efforts but states that he [JT] will never again apply "for place" because he has so often been misrepresented and slandered. 2 pp. ALS.

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Tells Anderson of his note to Dyke concerning the clerkship; [says he] includes a copy of this note. 1 p. ALS.

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States that however near starvation I may be," he will not take that clerkship in the Surveyor General's Office; comments that in Florida, "the blind [are] leading the blind." 2 pp. ALS.

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Requests a yes-or-no answer from Tyler concerning Tyler's application for the clerkship position. 2 pp. ALS.

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Says he will not accept the clerkship position because: his politics are independent of any particular party or man; the Republicans have not accepted his conservative view on establishing the government under Grant; he hasn't forgiven Conover for previous actions. 6 pp. 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,...