The Stanley F. Horn Collection of Tennessee Manuscripts contains more than six hundred individual pieces. Although they range in date from 1782 to the 1870s, most are concentrated in the first four decades of the nineteenth century. Virtually all of the early governors of Tennessee are represented by one or more documents. There are also papers of Sam Houston, John Sevier, JohnQuincy Adams, James Robertson, Davy Crockett, and others; there is one legal writ bearing the unique signature mark of the “long hunter,” Kasper Mansker.

More than one-third of the items in the Horn Collection are Andrew Jackson papers, making it one of the five foremost corpora of Jackson material in existence. There are letters between the Tennessee soldier-statesman and such contemporaries as Col. Samuel Swartwout, William H. Crawford, Joseph Anderson. Hugh Lawson White, and Willie Blount. There is an interesting and useful score of documents written late in 1814. requisitioning equipment and rations for the Battle of New Orleans.

Other important groups of papers comprised by the Horn Collection include:

In addition, the Collection also includes some substantive letters on Civil War matters.

This collection, containing approximately 650 items for the dates 1780-1905, is composed of accounts, applications, appointments, bonds, contracts, correspondence, court records, depositions, land records, estate records, Burr conspiracy data, military records, letters and papers of Andrew Jackson, Andrew Jackson III, Daniel Montgomery, and a few papers of John Overton. The papers of Andrew Jackson make up the largest portion of the collection. There are twenty-five letters written by Jackson between the dates 1813-1845, four of which are published in Bassett, Approximately one hundred and ten letters in the collection were written to Andrew Jackson and about one hundred additional letters are for the Jackson period. There are about forty letters which Tall in the period of the Civil War and twenty others in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The subjects dealt with in the Jackson period include items about the Creek Indian War; military supplies; Indian lands; the presidential elections of 1824, 1828, 1832, 1836, 1840, and 1844; Jackson’s political observations; Adams and Clay Junto; Burr conspiracy; Sam Houston and the Texas question; Jacksonfs military exploits; removal of the Indians west of the Mississippi; the Whigs; James Knox Polk; Martin Van Buren; Jackson and the tariff; nullification proclamation; Muscle Shoals as a possible arsenal; John C. Calhoun’s opinion of Jackson; William H. Crawford’s opinion of Jackson; and other phases of Jackson’s career.

The most important correspondents for this period are Joseph Anderson, R. Armstrong, Francis P. Blair, William Blount, V/illie Blount, John Brown, Neil S. Brown, Rouks Butler, John Catron, John H. Dew, Samuel Dixon, John H. Katon, A. Edwards, A. H. Everett, James Gadsden, John P. Helfenstein, Cave Johnson, S. Hm Laughlin, Eben A. Lester, R. Riker, James Robertson, V/. P. Rowles, J. F. Schermerhorn, John Sevier, James Ross Snowden, Samuel Swartwout, Walker Tandy, R. B. Taney, James G. Taylor, Hugh Lawson White, and James Winchester.

The most important correspondents for the Civil War period are William G. Brownlow, A. S. Colyar, E. A. Flewellen, Isham G. Harris, Andrew Jackson III, Samuel Milligan, and David T. Patterson.

The papers of Andrew Jackson III contain correspondence during the Civil War with his aunts, his ’toother, Sarah lorke Jackson, and his father, Andrew Jackson, Jr. A small diary kept by Andrew Jackson III in 1863 contains a few entries about troop movements.] There is a “Report of Heavy Batteries, Vicksburg, Mississippi” dated October, 1862, which commends Colonel Jackson for his “gallantry and unceasing vigilance during the siege”.

The Daniel Montgomery Papers for the period 1795-1852 are primarily land grants, deeds, indentures, surveys, and other legal documents for Sumner County. The papers contain a small amount of correspondence for the period 1815-1848.

The remainder of fthe Collection is composed of clippings, correspondence about gifts and invitations, memorials, recommendations, resolutions, and a few military records for the period 1795-1815.

See also: The Stanley Horn Library Master List (xerox copy) Deposited June 1978