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PLATE LVIII.

_April 4, 1841--March 4, 1845._

John Tyler, President of the United States. 1841. [Rx]. Peace and
friendship.

PRESIDENT JOHN TYLER.

[_Tenth[112] President of the United States of America._]

[Footnote 112: General Harrison, the ninth
President, died one month after his inauguration,
and no Indian peace medal of him was struck.]

JOHN TYLER, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1841. Bust of President
Tyler, facing the left.

PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP. Two hands clasped in token of amity; on the cuff
of the left wrist three stripes, and buttons with the American eagle
on them; the other wrist bare; above the hands, a calumet and tomahawk
crossed--Indian emblems of peace and war.

This medal bears no signature. Below are given the only documents
relating to it which could be obtained.

JOHN TYLER was born in Charles City County, Virginia, March 29, 1790.
He was graduated at William and Mary College, Virginia, 1807; and was
admitted to the bar, 1809. He was a member of the State Legislature,
1811-1816; member of Congress, 1816-1821; member of the State
Legislature, 1823-1825; governor of Virginia, 1825-1827; United States
senator, 1827-1836; vice-president of the United States, March 4,
1841, and President, on the death of General Harrison (April 4), (p. 277)
1841-1845. He took part with the South during the Civil War, and
was a member of the Confederate Congress. He died in Richmond, January
17, 1862.

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ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

_R. M. Patterson to J. C. Spencer._

To the Honorable
J. C. SPENCER, Mint of the United States,
Secretary of War. November 2, 1841.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 28th ult., and am gratified to see the interest which you
take in the subject of our American Medals.

The Military Medals of which we have the dies, are now in the
course of execution, in compliance with your request. Among them
is included the Medal voted, in 1777, to General Gates, of which
the dies were given, by the family, through Colonel Burr, to our
former chief coiner, Mr. Eckfeldt.

Electrotype copies of the other Medals, properly mounted, could
be furnished at two dollars each. We have already the means of
m