[Rarebooks] FS: John Tyler Letter to His Son Discussing the Attempted Assassination of President Andrew Jackson

[Charles Agvent]

TYLER, John. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to His Son Discussing the Attempted 
Assassination of President Andrew Jackson. Washington DC, 23 February 
1835. Superb two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "John Tyler" to his son on 
one integral 15-3/4" x 9-7/8" sheet of stationery folded to make four 
7-7/8" x 9-7/8" pages with one page serving as the Free Frank envelope 
SIGNED "J. Tyler." Addressed to "My Son" (Robert Tyler), he encourages 
Robert about making a public speech in order to graduate, discusses the 
recent assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson, and 
concludes with remarks about personal and professional success. In part: 
"I am sorry to learn through your last letter that you entertained 
difficulties about graduating in consequence of the necessity which it 
would impose on you to make a speech publickly.... The undivided honor 
is certainly calculated to render it the more distinguished-- It affords 
you also an opportunity for a more elaborate essay.... I hope therefore 
that you will attempt no compromise with the Professors but press 
forward to the full and complete discharge of the whole task.... It 
seems that charges are afloat against Poindexter [Jackson's political 
foe, Senator George Poindexter of Mississippi] of having had some 
connection with Lawrence the man who attempted to assassinate the 
President and that the President had procured criminating affidavits 
from three persons-- Poindexter brought the thing before the Senate and 
a Committee of five was appointed to investigate it-- If true he 
deserves to be hung-- if false his accusers would disgrace the gallows-- 
Being on the Committee it would be improper in me to express an opinion 
in advance-- but it is sufficiently mortifying to find such a spirit 
prevailing in the highest places.... [The committee concluded there was 
no connection between Poindexter and Lawrence.] I am glad to find you so 
much opposed to being in debt-- Your speculations about my future 
success are mere speculations-- Every man should aspire to attain 
eminence-- The great end of existence should be to curb that passions 
and never to render ourselves up to this influence-- This is the true 
philosophy-- and after all happiness is more frequently the inmate of 
the cottage than the palace." SIGNED "Yr Father, John Tyler." With 
transcription and a newspaper clipping of Robert Tyler's obituary from 
1877. Creases, small tape repair, chipping to edges, small hole at 
center above red wax seal with no loss of text. Very Good.

John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States and the first 
vice president to succeed to the presidency upon the death of William 
Henry Harrison who died 31 days after taking office. He was elected to 
the Confederate House of Representatives in November 1861. When he died 
the following year, Jefferson Davis held a lavish funeral, draping a 
Confederate flag over Tyler's coffin. To this day, Tyler remains the 
only U.S. president not to be buried beneath the American flag. 
Amazingly, he has a grandson who is still alive. (#021481)        $8,500

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