Andrew Jackson Autograph Letter Signed

ALS as a Tennessee senator, one page, 7.75 x 12.5, December 19, 1797. Addressed from Philadelphia, a handwritten letter to his friend Colonel Robert Hays, in part: "I have been anxiously waiting to receive a line from you. I have wrote you frequently whether they have reached you I am unable to say”but this I can say that I have not heard from any of my Cumberland friends since I left home however I will exercise patience until the next post and see what it may bring. With respect to news, business is not yet ripe for communicating”therefore will [not] touch upon foreign or domestick. With respect to Mercantile Transactions I have nothing certain on that head, but from the many failures, and the crowd of respectable citizens in Jail, Commerce wears a more dreary aspect than ever"¦had I only cash, bargains might be had in that line but, all confidence between man and man is at an end, therefore difficult to obtain credit"¦Make my respects to your lady and deliver the inclosed to Mrs. Jackson." In very good to fine condition, with some light staining, and professional repairs to fold splits and seal-related paper loss. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope addressed by Jackson, who adds his franking signature to the upper left corner: "Free, A. Jackson."

When Tennessee was admitted to the Union in June 1796, Jackson served as the state"™s first and only representative for less than a year before his resignation and subsequent election into the Tennessee senate in September 1797. This position and its haughty atmosphere, likewise, did not appeal to the 30-year-old Jackson, who, again, resigned less than a year later. Moreover, his swift departure was hastened by a personal financial reversal, of which this letter quite plainly infers, no doubt caused by the Panic of 1796"“1797, a crisis that resulted in the collapse of many prominent merchant firms in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and the imprisonment of many American debtors.