Letter, Joseph Erwin to Lawrence Lewis

Containers:
Box 49, Folder 1823.09.12
Creator:
Lewis, Lawrence, 1767-1839
Scope and content:

A.L.S. 2 pages. New Orleans. Erwin writes in regard to collecting an account -- he doesn't want to call on "our mutual friend Johnny Anderson" for payment of his note, because Anderson considers himself a great man thereabouts and he has promised to pay upon the sale of his crop -- "our friend Henry Johnston will be our next governor." Autograph letter signed, integral cover, mounted, postmarked "New Orl. L Sept 15," watermark.

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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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