Emil Hurja Collection, 1793-1953 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Personal papers of Emil Hurja as well as collected documents of and about Andrew Jackson and Peter Force. Includes 55 original Jackson letters, several typed copies and facsimiles, and ca. 15 other documents signed by Jackson. A number of portraits and engravings of Jackson are also included. Materials relating to Peter Force, editor of the National journal, an anti-Jackson newspaper published in Washington, D.C., include incoming correspondence primarily concerning the presidential elections of 1824 and 1828 and candidates John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William H. Crawford, and Andrew Jackson. Editorials, articles, and letters to various editors are also in this series. Correspondents include James Buchanan, Henry Clay, and John Adams (facsimile letter to President James Madison). Emil Hurja papers include correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other documents. Of special interest are three scrapbooks: one focuses on Hurja's student years at the University of Washington (1913-1917); another details Henry Ford's Peace Expedition, 1915-1916, in which Hurja participated; the third is a memorial scrapbook compiled upon Hurja's death by his wife, Gudrun Andersen Hurja. Correspondence in this series primarily concerns Hurja's run for U.S. Congress in 1946 and his work with Pathfinder magazine. In addition to the above items, there are six volumes of original manuscript materials for Andrew Jackson biographies by Marquis James, specifically four volumes for Andrew Jackson, the Border Captain (1933), and two volumes for Andrew Jackson, Portrait of a President (1937)