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Box 17

 Container

Contains 21 Results:

Folder 2, 1884 April-May

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105910
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,...
Dates: 1884 April-May

John Tyler, Jr., West Washington, D.C., to General U.S. Grant, Washington City, D.C., 1884 April 3

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105912
Scope and Contents

Applauds Grant's visit to the House of Representatives; hopes to see "the most prominent representative of the elements of anarchy in the country 'corked up in a bottle' again." 1 p. ACyS of ALS.

Dates: 1884 April 3

John Tyler, Jr., Washington, D.C., to Samuel J. Randall, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington City, D.C., 1884 April 5

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105914
Scope and Contents

Congratulates Randall on his movement in association with the reception of General Grant. 1 p. ACyS of ALS.

Dates: 1884 April 5

Sam[uel] J. Randall, Philadelphia, [Pa.], to John Tyler, Jr., Esq., n.p., 1884 April 7

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105915
Scope and Contents

Thanks Tyler for his kind words on Randall's action towards General Grant. 1 p. ALS.

Dates: 1884 April 7

John Tyler, Jr., West Washington, D.C., to the Committees on behalf of the Federation of Labor and on behalf of the Legislative Labor Assembly, n.p., 1884 April 8

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105917
Scope and Contents

Presents the final version of his address on Labor interests for Congress; states that he has removed all matters that had been objected to by members of the committees. 1 p. AcyS of ALS.

Dates: 1884 April 8

John Tyler, Jr., West Washington, D.C., to Samuel J. Randall, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 1884 April 10

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105919
Scope and Contents

Congratulates Randall on the result of the Pennsylvania convention; believes him to be the "strongest candidate for the Presidentcy [sic] the Democracy could place before the Country." 1 p. ACyS of ALS.

Dates: 1884 April 10

E. H. Lively, Williamsburg, Va., to Mr. John Tyler, n.p., 1884 April 17

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105920
Scope and Contents

Asks if it would be possible for Tyler to assist him in any way outside the influence of Mahone; hopes to "march to victory or to defeat, under the Blaine banner;" discusses the fortune of the Republican paper in Virginia he helped support; asks Tyler to answer favorably. 3 pp. ALS.

Dates: 1884 April 17

John Tyler, Jr., West Washington, D.C., to Chester A. Arthur, President U. States, Washington, D.C., 1884 April 25

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105921
Scope and Contents

Encourages Arthur to give thought to the matters in print herewith enclosed [Labor Memorial addressed to Congress]; believes the Labor movement to have become a political power. 1 p. ACyS of ALS. Including PD, "Memorial of the Federation of Labor Unions and Knights of Labor." 6 pp.

Dates: 1884 April 25

John Tyler, Jr., West Washington, D.C., to Charles J. Folger, Secretary U.S. Treasury Department, Washington City, D.C., 1884 April 21

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105923
Scope and Contents

Does not want Folger to think him ungrateful for his present position, but wishes the "injustice" done him by Senators Jones and Conover to be remedied - through the position of Collector at Key-West, Florida. 2 pp. ACyS of ALS.

Dates: 1884 April 21

O. L. Pruden, Assistant Secretary, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., to John Tyler, Esq., West Washington, D.C., 1884 April 26

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105924
Scope and Contents

Acknowledges for the President the receipt of Tyler's letter of the 25th. 1 p. LS.

Dates: 1884 April 26

J. L. Howell, Georgetown, D.C., to Mr. Tyler, n.p., [1884?] April 30

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105925
Scope and Contents

Offers to show Tyler and his daughter the rooms for rent. 1 p. ALS. Including NwsCL, "Advocate of Late Suppers." 1 p.

Dates: [1884?] April 30

E. H. Lively, Williamsburg, Va., to Jno. Tyler, Jr., Washington, D.C., [18]84 April 30

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105926
Scope and Contents

Applauds Tyler's efforts in the Labor movement; states that Mahone's "trickery and trading in politics has earned my disgust and contempt;" thanks Tyler for his interest in Lively's case; states that he "would like very much to see the ticket of Grant and Lincoln thrown to the breeze;" gives family news. 4 pp. ALS.

Dates: [18]84 April 30

A. J. Bennit, Washington, D.C., to Mr. Tyler, n.p., [18]84 May 6

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105927
Scope and Contents

Describes the cottage Tyler enquired about; gives name of former tenant so that Tyler could get additional information. 2 pp. ALS.

Dates: [18]84 May 6

Advertisement for "suburban Lots" in Hyattsville., [1884 May?]

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105928
Scope and Contents

1 p. PM. Including Nwsl - houses for sale in Hyattsville, Md., 1 p., and N, someone's address. 1 p.

Dates: [1884 May?]

R. B. Burroughs, Washington, D.C., to General John Tyler, Jr., [Washington City, D.C.], 1884 May 6

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105929
Scope and Contents

Informs Tyler that he is at the National [Hotel] and asks Tyler to come and see him. 1 p. ALS.

Dates: 1884 May 6

L. B. Ceabill, Washington, D.C., to John Tyler, [West Washington, D.C.], [1884] May 14

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105931
Scope and Contents

Describes a gentleman in her care who has pledged "total abstance [sic]"; thinks very highly of him when he is "himself." 2 pp. ALS.

Dates: [1884] May 14

A. M. Noyes, Washington, D.C., to General John Tyler, Washington, D.C., [1884] May 18

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105932
Scope and Contents

Asks Tyler to call on Mrs. Noyes to discuss some legal points in reference to an estate in Pennsylvania. 1 p. ALS.

Dates: [1884] May 18

John Tyler, Jr., Washington, D.C., to Chester A. Arthur, President U. States, Washington, D.C., 1884 May 20

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105934
Scope and Contents

Trusts that the ticket presented at Chicago will be Arthur and Lincoln; believs it would be "suicidal to the Republican Party, and dangerous to the Country, to put forward Blaine;" believes that the "laboring mass;" would stand against Blaine. 2 pp. ACyS of ALS.

Dates: 1884 May 20

R. B. Burroughs, Jacksonville, Florida, to Gene[era]l [John Tyler, Jr.], Washington, D.C., [18]84 May 21

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105935
Scope and Contents

States that he received no reply from his "strong and forcible letter;" to Col. White and Judge Vaun; advises Tyler to make an application for the position in Warrenton; sends regards to Tyler's daughter. 2 pp. ALS.

Dates: [18]84 May 21

Invitation to John Tyler to Ransom's Studio on the 27th for a literary recital. 1 p. C., [1884 May 26]

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105936
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,...
Dates: [1884 May 26]

John Tyler, Jr., Indianapolis, [Ind.], to J. B. Weaver, n.p., 1884 May 29

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id105937
Scope and Contents

Declines the nomination as vice-president of the National Greenback Labor Party since the nomination for President was for Benjamin F. Butler, which, in Tyler's opinion, involved an "abnegation of the political morals of the Party." 2 pp. ACyS of ALS. Including 2 tickets for the National Convention, on the 28th and 29th of May. 2 pp. PM.

Dates: 1884 May 29