Letter Recounting Andrew Jackson's Inauguration by Eye Witness Report 1829 Inauguration Andrew Jackson - 1829

Single page account of the visit to the White House: Must be the inaugural ball at one of two places. Carusi's is the more likely since there were more heads of state present at this location than at the other location. This would then be an eyewitness account of the ball that Jackson did not attend. Later in May, the author visits the capital building and the white house, seeing both the President and the Vice President and commenting on their 'disgusting appearance'.

From American Paper Mills, 1690-1932: A Directory of the Paper Trade with notes. By John Bidwell. 33. Phoenix Mill, On the Whippany river, Upstream of N.J. Mill #32. Robert Donaldson ran a paper warehouse in New York between 1819 and 1835. In 1819 he announced that a volume of law reports he had published was available at his "Book and Paper Ware Room". Hunter dates his papermaking activities as early as 1800, perhaps just a notional date, since Hunter knew about Donaldson's mill only on the basis of a ream wrapper reproduced in Papermaking by Hand in America. The earliest direct evidence I have found for his papermaking business is his RD watermark, first appearing in 1812. But he probably started before 1810, when the census recorded the existence of two paper mills in Morris County. His establishment contained two vats and two engines worked by ten men, eight women, and one child in the manufacture of paper and boards. Capitalized at $25,000. Donaldson's business cost him more than the revenue it produced, at least in 1820, when he complained that demand had declined because of imports. He won a prize for his quarto post paper in the seventh Exhibition of Domestic Manufacturers at the Franklin Institute, where he also displayed scented, tinted and embossed writing papers. The Phoenix Mill probably got its name around 1821 after a fire destroyed the building and inflicted losses estimate as high as $15,000 but not so high as to discourage Donaldson, whose watermarks show that his business had risen from the ashes by 1824. In 1834 he installed a 41 inch cylinder machine, although he appears to have been running a Fourdrinier in 1832, when Stephen Vail made some adjustments to the deckle straps and the shaking mechanism. Attending: Commodore Hull from Charleston MA Roger B. Taney- Attorney General of the United States Mr. Luann - Lawyer Misses Luann - daughter Mrs. Mercers - daughter Mr. Hunt - Vermont Representative Bankhead from Great Britain De Witt Clinton and many more, all listed. The writer goes on to describe the "Vice President is a mean lowly man, who presides with no dignity- & the President is exactly like the caricatures you have seen of him with an immense head of grey hair - disgusting-..."