Posted on 04/27/2009 7:39:01 PM PDT by Gomez
Don't mess with the man on the $20 bill!
A 185-year-old letter penned by President Andrew Jackson and swiped from the New York State Library was recently recovered by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo after a keen-eyed researcher spotted the document for sale on the Web, The Post has learned.
The four-page correspondence sat on the block for $35,000 before Cuomo's investigators returned it to the state's collection.
"New York is privileged to house one of the world's great archives of historic documents," Cuomo said. Jackson's "writings are precious artifacts that must be preserved for future generations.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
And I was just about to put my bid in!
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Probably they could tell it was by Jackson by all the misspellings.
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Was Old Hickory challenging someone to a duel in the letter?
Read Lewis and Clarkss’ logs. They (apparently) could spell either. //sarc//
;’) “I only have two regrets: I didn’t shoot Henry Clay, and I didn’t hang John C. Calhoun.”
There are parts of Lewis and Clark that are nearly unreadable.
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