Correspondence of JAMES K. POLK
Mrs Rogers takes leave respectfully to remind the Hon. Polk that she had the honor of forwarding a small Work on Temperance called the “Mirror” on her arrival in this Country in December last from Ireland, but having received any reply although she has written several letters,1 she now takes this opportunity as Mr Polk will have more leisure time upon his hands, she hopes he will be pleased to send her an answer to her request for which she will feel thankful.
The second number was dedicated to the Hon Washington Hunt. Likewise Governor Fish of the state of N.Y. was kind enough to become subscriber.
AN. DLC–JKP. Addressed to Washington City and forwarded to Nashville. Postmarked New York City, March 7, and Washington City, March 8.
- Letters and enclosure not found. No temperance periodical with “Mirror” in its title and established, as this letter implies, in 1848 has been positively identified. Rogers may have sent Polk the Temperance Mirror, whose Mr. Barlow spoke at the Women’s State Temperance Convention in Albany, N.Y., in 1853 but whose founding date is unknown.↩