3 autograph letters signed ("Andrew Jackson") as seventh president, totalling 8 pages (10 x 8 in.; 253 x 203 mm), integral address leaves, Washington, 3 May 1830–17 September 1835, to James A. Hamilton; horizontal folds, lower half of second leaf of earliest letter cut away costing signature.

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President Jackson to his former Acting Secretary of State. Hamilton was an ally of Jackson's in opposing the Bank of the United States, an institution founded by his own father, Alexander Hamilton.  Jackson writes on 3 May 1830, "I find from your letter that you have not seen Mr. McDuffie's report upon the United States Bank …. I presume it to be a joint effort, & it is feeble. This is intended as the first shot at my administration, but it will pass without either massacring or wounding it."

On 5 October 1830, recovering from a cold, the President writes, "Your letter with the slippers presented was recd two days ago, but we have been so busied with the dispatches opening the West India trade, some little difficulty having arisen in the mind of the Sec. of the Treasury on the subject of the instructions to be issued to Collectors, that no leisure was presented to me until 𓂃now. We arranged this last evening, and I hope our return dispatch will reach New York in time for the packet of the 8th."

Writing in September 1835, Jackson was already thinking of his retireme🗹nt from office and return to the Hermitage, his home near Nashville. Jackson reminds Hamilton that they first met at the Hermitage and goes on to say, "I desire once more to return to that peaceful abode, from which you know I was reluctantly drawn by the call and partiality of my country; and, where I can with truth say I enjoyed the only happy hours allotted to me to enjoy on earth, and where, if I am permitted to survive my present official term, I will joyfully return, although it has lost, by the death of dear Mrs. J., its better charms. Your present situation, surrounded as you are with your amiable and promising family, enjoying all the amusements and sweets of rural life, must afford you more real enjoyment and happiness than ever has flown or can flow from official life, even of a President, and all subordinate to him in the Republic. You must be happy. In the enjoyment of your family around you, the amusement which your farm and flocks afford, and then at leisure moments in your library, what more could man ask for here below, to increase his happiness? I answer, Nothing."