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Andrew Jackson autograph letter signed as President. Datelined Washington, 27 June 1832, letter to his stepson provides advice on hiring an overseer and counsel on equine misfortune, reading in part, ''My son...As to the loss of the mare, when all precaution has been taken, I never repine, it is only when loss is sustained by carelessness, or mismanagement that we ought to repine, & even then only to remember it, as a beacon to by which to shun a repetition of mismanagement or carelessness, because we cannot by repining change the event which has passed...Andrew Jackson / P.S. let me know the amount of crop growing each kind separately, and the appearance now of the oscar fillys colt by Citizen - Citizen is a much better bred horse than Crusader A.J.'' 4pp. letter on a single sheet of card-style stationery measures 8'' x 9.75''.
Andrew Jackson Autograph Letter Signed as President Offering Fatherly Advice to His Son -- ''...we cannot by repining change the event which has passed...'' -- Signed Plus Initialed Postscript
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