from all of these are set out below. Those of Cardinal Gibbons, Rev. Mr. Norment and Howard Waldo are sufficiently explanatory as to their writers. Judge John A. Fite, who wrote from Florida, is a member of the old and distinguished Fite family of Tennessee, is a lawyer by profession, but, by reason of age, is not now practicing. He was a member of the Tennessee Legislature and for seven years Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Tennessee. He made an enviable record on the bench. He was Colonel of the Seventh Tennessee Regiment in the Confederate Army, and graduated at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. He was captured during the Civil War and made a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island.

John B. Murrey, J. W. Huddleston, L. Vesey, J. W. Tilford, and W. H. Hayes are all men of highest integrity and standing wherever they are known, and are recognized as most valuable and upright citizens in the communities where they live.

Chas. B. Sevier, of Harriman, Tennessee, near Knoxville, great grand-son of Governor John Sevier, has a fund of information obtained from his parents and remoter ancestors that is practically equivalent to first-hand, and, therefore, his statement is included in this list of letters.

"I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your two volumes containing the life of Andrew Jackson. For many reasons the life of this great President and statesman has been of great interest

to me.

"First, because I may regard him as the founder of the present Democratic party whose cornerstone is the assertion of individual liberty with recognition of lawful authority.

"Secondly, I was always interested in Andrew Jackson for a personal reason. When I was an infant, in the year 1837, General Jackson received an ovation in Baltimore. The procession escorting him through the city happened to pass our residence and my mother held me up in her arms to contemplate the hero of New Orleans, the President of the United States.

"I am reading your work from page 420 where you begin to treat of him personally and as far as I have gone I have been very much pleased with all that I have read. I was particularly charmed with your reference to Gov. Henry A. Wise and the noble tribute he pays to General Jackson and the moral character of his wife. "You refer to Governor Wise's successful efforts in combating Know-Nothingism. I can verify that statement. His election occurred about the year I left New Orleans for College. February, his competitor was declared elected, which news brought dismay and sorrow to the citizens of New Orleans. But the city went wild with excitement and joy when a few days afterwards the news came announcing the election of Henry A. Wise. I enjoyed the personal acquaintance of Mr. Wise in Richmond among the early seventies and had the pleasure of dining with him and afterwards traveling with him.

"I hope that the rest of the work will afford me as much pleasure and enlightenment as I have derived from the perusual of a good part of the first volume. I am,

"Faithfully yours,

"J. Card. Gibbons, "Archbishop of Baltimore.

"P. S. The thought has occurred to me that in publishing a further edition, the four hundred pages of the early history of Tennessee may be abbreviated or omitted, as they can be but of secondary interest to those living outside the state. Chief Justice Marshall in writing the Life of Washington devoted the best part of a volume to the early history of the Colonies and in a later edition he felt it his duty to omit or abridge those pages in order to please his publishers and readers.".

THE AUTHOR'S REPLY.

"To His Eminence James, Cardinal Gibbons,

"Archbishop of Baltimore,

"408 North Charles Street,
"Baltimore, Md.

"Your Eminence:

"July 19, 1920.

"I write to cordially thank you for your favor of July 14th, 1920, and to express my pleasure over two statements contained in your letter.

"First, that you saw Andrew Jackson. You are the second person I know of, now living, who saw Andrew Jackson. The other is Mrs. Rachael Jackson Lawrence, who is the daughter of General Jackson's adopted son, and who is now living, at the age of eighty-seven, about two miles from the Hermitage, which is located twelve miles from Nashville, Tennessee. You will find an interview given me by Mrs. Lawrence in the History of Jackson, and also a history of the descendants of General Jackson's adopted son.

"Mrs. Lawrence was present at General Jackson's death, and was standing at the foot of the bed. You will see this bed in an illustration in the book, located in the room just as it was when General Jackson died. Mrs. Lawrence was at the foot of this bed.

"Second, you saw and was personally acquainted with Governor Henry A. Wise, of Virginia. I am a great admirer of Governor Wise, and I did not know of any American citizen who knew him. He died in the early seventies. If, while writing this book, I had known that you were personally acquainted with him, I would have been tempted to ask you to give me any reminiscences you might have connected with the Governor, and also your opinion of him. I have always felt that his canvass against Know-Nothingism in the State of Virginia, and which brought about the death of that party, entitled him to be ranked as a real friend of American liberty and as a grand advocate of freedom of thought and opinion in America.

"I note that you are reading the book from page 420, and I hope it will give you some measure of the pleasure it gave me in writing it.

"With highest regard to Your Eminence, I beg to remain, "Very truly yours,

"In answer to yours of the 15th inst. will say I feel proud to write a reminiscence of a visit to the Hermitage to see General Jackson.

"I was a boy of fifteen years of age, at school at Cumberland University at Lebanon. Hearing that the General was becoming very feeble, about fifteen of us boys and young men, decided to visit him in his home, which we did.

"We were received by Mr. Andrew Jackson Donelson and given the privilege of seeing the house and surroundings. In the parlor we saw his duelling pistols on the table, his sword hanging on the wall and many other relics and trophies from battles he had fought; among them a log with a spear stuck in it which log had been taken from one of the battle-fields. Mr. Donelson said the General was indisposed that morning but would receive us in the afternoon.

When

"Accordingly in the afternoon we repaired to his room. we entered, he was seated in an arm-chair with a little silver pipe, smoking. Each boy stepped forward and gave his hand and name and where from. When all were seated, one of the older boys

got up and made a short talk and expressed that all the boys were eager to meet and see the Hero of New Orleans; that we were at school preparing for the duties of life.

"The General then expressed his appreciation and gave us a hearty, fatherly talk upon the responsibilities of life, of church. and state, especially of the Christian life, and that soon we would be called upon to assume the duties of those then in action. His talk, or exhortation, lasted some 15 or 20 minutes. On bidding us goodbye he shook our hand warmly, and, to each one expressed the hope that we would fulfill our stations in life with credit to ourselves and the state.

"This was about three weeks before his death. When hearing that he was dead, I, with others, decided to attend the burial. The funeral was preached by a Presbyterian Pastor from Nashville, standing on the front porch to a great concourse of people. His body was then taken by a military company and borne to the garden and placed beside his wife in a vault that he had prepared. A military salute was then fired and we left him there to rest in peace, to await the great resurrection morn.

"Before the sermon and while the crowd was gathering, a wicked parrot that was a household pet, got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house.

"And thus the man of nerve that won battles and guided the ship of State thru stormy scenes, had finished his work. The late Judge Green was at the funeral.

"I never saw either Polk or Johnson only when they were canvassing the state for office. Mr. Polk's sister, Mrs. Caldwell, attended my wedding in 1849; she was then living at Dancyville, Tenn.

"I was born in a mile of this place, the 21st of September, 1829; have been pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church here since 1857.

"Hoping these few notes will be of some benefit to you, and wishing you success,

"I am sincerely,

"Rev. W. M. Norment,

Per Fannie Norment."

HOWARD WALDO TO THE AUTHOR.

"Campbell Hall, N. Y., "Feb. 9, 1921.

"Mr. S. G. Heiskell, "Dear Sir:

"Since Mr. Waldo is unable to answer your letter himself, I (his wife), am doing so for him and will be glad to give you what information we can on the portrait. Mr. Waldo's recollections of General Jackson are naturally very vague. As a boy he was

not allowed in the studio while his father was at work, so he only saw the general as he came or went from the house. He remembers him as a tall, very stern looking man with iron-gray hair which he wore cut quite short and in pompadour style. He was always dressed in citizen's clothes when he came to the house. The uniform was put in by Mr. Waldo as he painted the picture. It was a life-size painting of the General on horseback, but Mr. Waldo does not remember ever seeing it when finished. His father took a sketch of Jackson's head and shoulders on a wooden panel which was never touched except while the General was sitting for it. Then he painted the portrait on canvas from that sketch. That original panel is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It was painted in 1840 or 1841, as nearly as he can remember.

"The people of the City of New Orleans commissioned Mr. Samuel L. Waldo to paint this portrait to be placed in their custom house in honor of Gen. Jackson's victory at New Orleans over the British forces under Gen. Pakenham, who was killed in that battle. Mr. Waldo thinks the portrait is still in the old custom house. He never heard of its removal. The people of the City of New Orleans paid for it, not Gen Jackson. The price paid was $500, which was a good price in those days. not own a copy of it.

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"In regard to Daniel Webster, Mr. Waldo met him once on the street in New York and was impressed by his unusual appearHe was a majestic man in appearance- all of six feet in height, very erect, an unusually large head and peculiar smokyblack eyes. He wore a rough, long-napped beaver hat of a light gray color, a dark blue coat with plain brass buttons and buff vest and trousers. Mr. Waldo recognized him by pictures he had seen of him.

"Hope this information will be of some value to you. Mr. Waldo is sorry he cannot remember more, but it is a great many years for a man of his age to look back.

"Yours sincerely,

"Mrs. Howard Waldo."

JUDGE JOHN A FITE TO THE AUTHOR.

"Clearwater, Florida,

"Feb. 24th, 1921.

"Hon. S. G. Heiskell,

Knoxville, Tennessee.

"Dear Sir:

"I am in receipt of your favor of the 16th inst., asking me to give you my recollection of seeing General Andrew Jackson; how he looked and how he was dressed, and under what circumstances I saw him.

"I am sorry that I am unable to tell you but little that would interest anyone. In the first place, I was quite a small boy when