LS, one page both sides, 7.75 x 10, September 8, 1820. Jackson writes from the headquarters of the Division of the South to Secretary of State John C. Calhoun (1782–1850) who would later serve as vice president in Jackson’s own administration. In part: “At the solicitation of a worthy and respectable neighbor, Mr. Francis Sanders, I enclose you his letter to me … desiring that his son Thomas F. Sanders should obtain a warrant to enter the Military academy…. I have only to add, that the youth has conducted himself well thus far in his life, and seems ambitious to embrace the advantages opened by a military education…. [Mr. Saunders] is anxious to give one of his sons a military education and has selected the one named for that purpose…” In very good condition, with light toning and wrinkling, discolorations to small areas of the perimeter (evidently protected from the light), intersecting mailing folds (vertical fold to first name; archival reinforcements to partial separations elsewhere), faint show-through, and restored chip to blank margin. The signature is quite clear and dark. Auction LOA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
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