The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-11-07
and 10 aramnlifu thia assnrance.

promise you that whether the demand
/ have made upon you be complied
with or not, will, at any time after
publishing my book, which shall b.
! suppressed or expedited by your deter
mination, promptly attend to any call
you may think proper TO make upon
me. have to add that / have no
doubt OF my books producing $4,000
If you do not think proper to prevent
its appearance. Should you decide in
the negative, you may rest assured
shall not, TO save the trouble of smelt-
| ing. abandon the ore have extracted
with such expense of time and labor
from the mines. both dark and. deep,
not, indeed, OF Mexico, but of Alston,
Jefferson and Burr. i send besides the
original duplicate and triplicate of
this letter, namely, one direct 90 Col
umbia, one 70 Charleston, and the
third to Georgetown. This is done
with a view, by lessening the chances
of my letters miscarFying, TO expedite
your answer, of which | shall wait
double the time necessary to bring il
10 me in the regular course OF the
mails. am, sir, your most Obedient
servant,
HARMAN BLENNEKHAssETT.
1t will be readily seen by this that
Burr and Aston Gas Burrs security
did owe Harman Blennerhassett
money, and that this demand for the
same was a Just and honorable one,
and not, as your correspondent
states, "money asked at the price Of
silence, concerning certain portions
of the conspiracy" Besides this,
there are references without number
in the journal kept by Harman
Blennerhassett while in the Rich
mond penitentiary awaiting his trial
as to Burr's moneyed obligations to
him. 1t is but proper to add that
the beginning of the above letter !
speaks of S12 800 having been paid |
by Aston at various times. 1t is |
the balance of the $4,000 that Har-
man Blennerhassett demands in this |
letter. Your correspondent gives a |
description of Mrs. Blennerhassett |
There is no picture of her in exist |
ence. Her miniature painted on |
ivory, match for the one in my |
possession of Harman Blennerhas- |
sett, was lost by her husband when |
travelling in the Indian Nation, so
that no sketch of her appearance
can be truthfully given. As for the
"Island home" it cost enough to /
have been an earthly paradise at
least. / have never seen any of the
descendants who desired 70 repur-
chase it, though some of them have
been able to do so. Your CORE
spondent states that the information
given you is gained from W. III.
Stafford, Who'll had "literary bequest"
of "Blennerhassett's papers 1t is
false. The man had no literary be-
quest of papers All that he had /
gave him in my house in this city
in 1858, when he camc TO st. Louis
at his own written request (Which
have carefully kept, L having re
ceIved the entire manuscript in the
summer of 1857 from Jes. l.: Blen-
in the little town OF
Troy, Lincoln county, Mo. | gave
this MIR. Stafford the papers under
the impression that he was n gentle
man, a man, but subsequent events
prove both to be misnomers in his
case. After eleven years of illegal
gained possession of
these papers by continually impor-
tuning his kind wife, who sent them
to me. But thirteen letters of Burr's
were missing and have never been
accounted for to this day. They
will be, though, if not in my time,
to my children. So that if this in
dividual has one scrap of the origi-
nal papers he has that scrap by
theft, and should be, and is, as
to the laws of the land as
though he had stolen q half dozen
silver spoons from me. He denies
having Burr's letters in his posses
sion though, says they were lost by
the publishers when they issued his
brilliant production entitled The
BlenRerhdSSett Papers.
THERESA NJ. BLENNERHAssETTe