Scope and Content Note for Additions to the Collection
Material added to the John Tyler Papers since the collection was filmed in 1961 has been organized as Series 4, Addenda, spanning the period 1830-1863. The correspondence and other items in the addenda are grouped by the year in which each addition was processed.
The 1979 Addition includes twelve letters to and from Tyler and a letter fragment. Correspondents include Hugh B. Grigsby, John Leeds Kerr, James Lyons, Cincinnatus Newton, Judge Tucker, and John Tyler's daughter, Mary Tyler, and son, Robert Tyler.
The 1997 Addition contains three items of correspondence, one of which is a photostatic copy, and an engraved portrait. One letter, dated 1832, contains advice and news from Tyler to his daughter Mary at the family home in Virginia. A letter of condolence from clergyman Septimus Tustin upon the death of Tyler's wife, Letitia Christian Tyler, is dated 1842. A copy of Tyler's letter of recommendation for the superintendency of Harper's Ferry Armory, dated 1841, was written during his brief tenure as vice president in the administration of William Henry Harrison. The engraved portrait was published in New York by Johnson, Fry & Company in 1863 "from the original painting by Chapel."