Diary, [ca. 1842-ca. 1844].

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Diary, [ca. 1842-ca. 1844].

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Consists of a portion of the diary of Jethro Peyton Gatlin, student at the University of Nashville in Tennessee. Includes accounts of the following: lectures at the University by Philip Lindsley and other professors; visits to the State Capitol to hear debates; political issues and speeches by John Quincy Adams and others; meetings of the Erosophian and Callionpean literary societies at the University; Nashville's celebrations of the birthdays of George Washington and Andrew Jackson, the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, and the funerals of former mayor Thomas Crutcher and former governor William Carroll; reports from the Democratic convention in Baltimore, Maryland and the nomination of James K. Polk of Tennessee for President of the United States; Gatlin's views on temperance.

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