[279] Memoirs, Feb. 12, 1831.

[280] This letter of Crawford’s was returned to the writer, according to Shipp’s Life of Crawford, p. 210, which contains the letter—a vicious philippic—and Calhoun’s brief note on returning it.

[281] Memoirs, Feb. 16, 1831.

[282] Ibid., Feb. 17, 1831.

[283] Memoirs, Feb. 21, 1831.

[284] Ibid., Feb. 22, 1831.

[285] It was not until Jackson had asked Hamilton for Forsyth’s letter that the latter told Van Buren of its contents. Van Buren’s Autobiography, 373.

[286] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 168.

[287] Perley’s Reminiscences, I, 122.

[288] Perley’s Reminiscences.