JACKSON, Andrew. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson"), as President, to William Burk, Washington, 9 November 1831. 1 page, 4to WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED ("ANDREW JACKSON"), seal holes repaired, creases neatly reinforced. "CONTRARY TO THE WISHES & PRAYERS OF MY ENEMIES" JACKSON RECOVERS FROM "THE PREVAILING FEVER OF THIS PLACE" Washingtonians today joke about "Potomac Fever," a common form of over weaning ambition. But for 19th century residents of the swampy Capital, it was no joke. Here President Jackson rejoices in his recovery and takes even more delight in thwarting the death wishes of his many enemies: "I feel grateful to you for your solicitude for my health, and can assure you it has not been better for many years. I had an attack of the prevailing fever of this place, from which I have entirely recovered, & feel more free from affliction than I have for the last ten years. Assure my friends that Providence has & will take care of me, and that, contrary to the wishes & prayers of my enemies, I will live just so long as God wills it, and not longer..." Jackson certainly had many enemies during his tenure, starting with his own Vice-president, John C. Calhoun; the nullification crisis in South Carolina was threatening to turn violent; and the following year Jackson would take on Nicholas Biddle in his war to cripple the Bank of the United States. But his medical torments were almost as extensive. With two bullets stuck inside his body, and recurring bouts of malaria and dysentery, Jackson's health was never robust. One of those bullets--deposited by a duelist in 1806--lodged in his lung, too close to his heart to safely remove by surgery. It caused chronic, painful coughing and occasional hemorrhages. Jackson's self-diagnosis is as intriguing as it is medically imprecise: Did he have a flair-up of his malaria? Another abscess from his bullet wound? Or was he one of the early (and fortunate) victims of the cholera pandemic that swept the United States, and the world, over the course of 1831-32? The disease was fatal in over 50 percent of cases, and it claimed the lives of tens of millions worldwide.
JACKSON, Andrew. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson"), as President, to William Burk, Washington, 9 November 1831. 1 page, 4to WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED ("ANDREW JACKSON"), seal holes repaired, creases neatly reinforced. "CONTRARY TO THE WISHES & PRAYERS OF MY ENEMIES" JACKSON RECOVERS FROM "THE PREVAILING FEVER OF THIS PLACE" Washingtonians today joke about "Potomac Fever," a common form of over weaning ambition. But for 19th century residents of the swampy Capital, it was no joke. Here President Jackson rejoices in his recovery and takes even more delight in thwarting the death wishes of his many enemies: "I feel grateful to you for your solicitude for my health, and can assure you it has not been better for many years. I had an attack of the prevailing fever of this place, from which I have entirely recovered, & feel more free from affliction than I have for the last ten years. Assure my friends that Providence has & will take care of me, and that, contrary to the wishes & prayers of my enemies, I will live just so long as God wills it, and not longer..." Jackson certainly had many enemies during his tenure, starting with his own Vice-president, John C. Calhoun; the nullification crisis in South Carolina was threatening to turn violent; and the following year Jackson would take on Nicholas Biddle in his war to cripple the Bank of the United States. But his medical torments were almost as extensive. With two bullets stuck inside his body, and recurring bouts of malaria and dysentery, Jackson's health was never robust. One of those bullets--deposited by a duelist in 1806--lodged in his lung, too close to his heart to safely remove by surgery. It caused chronic, painful coughing and occasional hemorrhages. Jackson's self-diagnosis is as intriguing as it is medically imprecise: Did he have a flair-up of his malaria? Another abscess from his bullet wound? Or was he one of the early (and fortunate) victims of the cholera pandemic that swept the United States, and the world, over the course of 1831-32? The disease was fatal in over 50 percent of cases, and it claimed the lives of tens of millions worldwide.
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