Letter from John Tyler to Robert Tyler, May 18, 1847, Sherwood Forest Plantation, Virginia
3 pp. Handwritten. Plus address leaf. "When the Mexican gulph [sic] shall be crowded with innumerable ships freighted with the rich production of Texas both Coastwide and outward - meeting other ships loaded with the freights of all the world to give in exchange - then will it be seen that my labors were not in vain to advance the highest destinies of the country."