Correspondence of JAMES K. POLK
My departure for the south took place the day before your letter1 reached here. I was gone a month.
I have this moment bound Mr Hughs in writing to take your house at fifteen hundred dollars 1500.$ so this matter is settled. Your house is not in as great a s[t]ate2 of forwardness as I hoped to find it the Plasterer having disappointed him. He has now additional help at it & will he promises me complete the work as quick as posible.
I will see that the paper is not put on too soon for safety & that the boxes of Furnature &c are properly taken care of. Should write more fully but have just returned & have the ofice perpetually full of people talking of business.
[P.S.] Mr H is to send your plan immediately with all receses & projections of each room with its exact dimensions.
ALS. DLC–JKP. Addressed to Washington City. From Polk’s AE: received January 4, 1849; answered January 9, 1849; “Relates to my private business;/Has let Mr Hughes have my store-house & lot in Columbia Tennessee at $1500.”