Andrew Jackson to John Payne Todd, 12 January 1817 (Abstract)

§ Andrew Jackson to John Payne Todd. 12 January 1817, Nashville. His friend Maj. John H. Eaton is en route to Philadelphia to oversee the publication of a work commenced by Capt. Reid (deceased). Requests that Eaton be introduced to JM “for whose private charector he has a great respect.”1

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1. Jackson referred to The Life of Andrew Jackson, Major General in the Service of the United States: Comprising a History of the War in the South, from the Commencement of the Creek Campaign, to the Termination of Hostilities before New Orleans. Commenced by John Reid, […] Completed by John Henry Eaton (Philadelphia, 1817; Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols.; New York, 1958–66). description ends 40723).

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Title: Andrew Jackson to John Payne Todd, 12 January 1817 (Abstract)
Author: Jackson, Andrew
Recipient: Todd, John Payne
Date: 12 January 1817

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Cite as: “Andrew Jackson to John Payne Todd, 12 January 1817 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0646. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 606.]