The mahogany bedstead, one of eight purchased after the fire of 1834, the mahogany bureau with toilet articles, mahogany washstand with original washstand set, original hair brush and clothes brush, strawberry design painted on back, mahogany marble top center table, triple mirror, brass andirons, cut glass oil lamp, the brass candlestick were all used in this room. The carpet is not original, but an old one of the period. The portrait of Sarah York Jackson was painted by Healy. The leather chair was one used constantly by her.
The wallpaper is a reproduction, presented by the Robert Graves Company of New York and copyrighted (1925). The wood blocks from which the paper was made were purchased by the Association.
Candlestick on mantel, presented by Mrs. Anne Hoyte Hicks Joyce, which was purchased by her grandmother, Mrs. Maggie L. Hicks, at an early auction, was used by General Jackson at the Hermitage.
Bohemian glass jar, which belonged to Rachel Jackson. Presented by Mrs. W. T. Mallison.
Andrew Jackson’s signature is on fly leaf of open volume, History of England, 1793.
Side Hall
1. Famous Military Portrait (by Earl). 2. Secretary presented to General Jackson. 3. Original sofa purchased by the Association in 1937. 4. The wallpaper in the side hall (downstairs) is a copy of the original, the part upstairs is the original. 5. Marble bust of General Jackson, presented by Hon. Lawrence Cooper, of Huntsville, Ala. 6. Precepts, given to Jackson in his early youth by his mother, which he said ruled his life. This copy presented by E. A. Lindsey and Reau E. Folk. 7. Jackson’s Masonic Apron loaned by Stanley F. Horn. 8. Copy of Jackson’s portrait, which hangs in the Nashville Masonic Temple, the original having been painted when Jackson was Grand Master. Presented by the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Tennessee. 9. Presentation copy of Masonic Manual, dedicated to Jackson and presented to him by the author, Wilkins Tannehil. 10. Early portrait of Jackson, showing in the background the Hermitage as it was before it was remodeled in 1831 and preceding the fire of 1834. It was presented by Mrs. Charles W. Frear, of Troy, N. Y., in memory of her husband, who owned it for many years. 11. Jackson portrait by Sully. Presented in 1958 by Mrs. John Valentine Mershon of Philadelphia, whose grandfather, Jonathan Paul Worrall, was one of the group who originally proposed Jackson’s nomination for the presidency, and who previously owned the portrait. It was carried at the head of political parades. 12. 1819 Map of the United States given by Mrs. James Wemyss of Gallatin, Tennessee.
Office or Library
The books are those that constituted General and Mrs. Jackson’s library and some of those of the two succeeding generations. The bookcases, which were General and Mrs. Jackson’s, hold volumes of history, poetry, fiction, theology, military regulations, law, medical practices for the home, veterinary science, gardening, bound state papers and newspapers of the time, school books, etc., numbering over 400.
The tables of mahogany, the brass candlestick, mahogany chairs, pair of bronze oil lamps, cut glass celande or hurricane shade, brass spittoon, boar paperweight, and owl inkstand are all original. The carpet, not originally in the Hermitage, was obtained from the home of Mrs. Edgar Foster, which was built in the period of the Hermitage. Other original furnishings are: