Case F: Photostatic copies of bills and letters from Philadelphia dealers regarding Hermitage furnishings purchased in 1837 and of bills for remodeling mansion after the fire in 1834.
Case G: Copies of bills for Hermitage furnishings purchased in 1837. Letter from Jane Caffery, Hermitage, Feb. 1815, regarding the Battle of New Orleans, presented by Vera Walker Morel. Poem written on Jackson’s birthday, March 15, 1837, White House. Letters to Major A. J. Donelson, telling of marauder’s attempt to break in to President Jackson’s bedroom.
Case H: Letter from Jackson to his neighbor Dr. Doyle, requesting his consultation with Col. Jeremiah George Harris’ physicians at the time of his accident. Letter from Lord Byron, Venice, 1819, to his Paris publishers, remonstrating against publishing under his name volumes of which he was not the author. Presented by Earl to Jackson, along with volume of Byron’s poems.
Case I: Letter from Jackson to Maj. Wm. B. Lewis, February 28, 1845, regarding Polk’s cabinet and other political matters. Letter to President Jackson from Edward Livingston, Paris, May 6, 1834. Letter, Emily Donelson to Andrew Jackson Donelson.
Case J: Letter from Andrew Jackson to Major William B. Lewis, Aug. 6, 1814, referring to military matters. Letter from Andrew Jackson to Dr. Doyle, Fountain of Health, requesting bill for services to his ward, Dec. 27, 1840. Letter, Andrew Jackson to Andrew Jackson, Jr.
MANSION AND GROUNDS
The Hermitage is built in “Southern Colonial” style of architecture, with large verandas in front and rear, a wide hallway, with two rooms on either side, and wings supplementing these. The rooms are spacious, and are eleven in number, besides pantry, storeroom, kitchen, cellar. There is a smoke-house and other outhouses. In 1922 a steam furnace was installed at a safe distance from the mansion, eliminating danger of fire from this source.
The Hall
The paper represents the legend of the travels of Telemachus in search of Ulysses, his father, and is that part of the story of his landing on the island of Calypso. He is accompanied by Mentor.