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- GLC#
- GLC02925.17-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1850/05/02
- Author/Creator
- Ritchie, Thomas, 1778-1854
- Title
- to General
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Thanks the General for a copy of Ritchie's own letter from 1836, in which he argued for the annexation of Texas. Recalls that he sent a similar letter to Secretary of State Martin Van Buren around the same time, and that Van Buren seemed to agree with him. Remembers that it was, ironically, Van Buren's later opposition to annexation that cost him the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1844. This letter comes from Alfred E. Burr's scrapbook, but it is unclear who the "General" was. The docket, which is written in a separate hand, but also addressed to "Gen." suggests that the letter passed through several hands. The docket asks for the permission of "Gen." before sending the letter to Cleveland.
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