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Letter from President Andrew Jackson, Washington, D.C., to Mary Donelson Coffee (wife of John R. Coffee), near Florence, Alabama, dated October 20,1834.

Jackson sends a cadet's warrant for her son, and his namesake, Andrew Jackson Coffee, to enter the U. S. Military Academy and advises him to accept admission: “…it will ensure him, with application, a thorough education, and there will be no obligation on him to remain in the army unless it should be his choice. His answer, whatever it may be, he can inclose [sic] under cover to me, and I will hand it to the Secretary of War.” He has also sent a warrant to a nephew of his wife, Andrew J. McLemore. He looks forward to seeing both young men in Washington and spending some time with them before they report to West Point. Jackson will be glad when his presidential term is up and he can return to the Hermitage. He asks Mary to tell Andrew Hutchings (Jackson’s former ward and husband of her daughter Mary) to write to him.

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sc.0027.001_001.007

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1834 October 20

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.; Coffee, Mary Donelson, 1793-1871.

Letter: Andrew Jackson to Mary Coffee, 1834

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