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prevent him from occasionally stealing away from Duff Green and 

 Amos Kendall to make himself comfortable in his slippers, with his 

 corn-cob pipe, if tradition be true and writing to his young 

 clerical friend down on Station Camp Creek about "my gray stud 

 colt, Bolivar." Jackson considered Bolivar "one of the purest 

 blooded horses in America" "better than any that can be got 

 in Virginia now" and had great hopes of him. On Jan. 10, 1830, 

 he wrote, approving some action Cryer had taken with reference 

 to Bolivar, and, continuing, said of him: 



" I would like to get Col Elliots opinion of the propriety of train- 

 ing, and running him in the spring, if he thinks well of it, I will 

 give him fifty dollars for training him, and when he makes the experi- 

 ment, if he chooses to enter him for his own benefit, he may do so; 

 if not I will pay the entrance, & run him for the benefit of my son, 

 if Col Elliot thinks his situation & wind will justify the experiment 

 I am of the belief, that by nature, if his breathing had not been 

 injured, he was one of the first runners ever owned in America 

 Dunwody by neglect destroyed him as a runner & ruined my Oscar 

 filly also as a runner. Consult Col Elliott in whom I have every con- 

 fidence, whether it is prudent to try him again upon the turf if he 

 says he will train him, & think he can run him in credit, let him be 

 placed wheresoever the Col may direct, say on my own farm, & 

 treated as he may desire until the proper time for him to take him 

 for training. If he advises him not again to be trained, then, Sir, 

 you will either send him to my farm or place him at a stand that 

 you may select, advertising him at fifteen Dollars payable within 

 the season, or twenty out & in proportion the single leap & insur- 

 ance." 



On Feb. 28, 1830, Jackson wrote another letter about Bolivar and 

 told Cryer to apply certain money to his own use " until it may be 

 more convenient for you" to repay it, or until "my wants may re- 

 quire it." 



On Jan. 17, 1832, just after pulling out from under the influenza; 

 and from under the surgeon's knife, inserted into his left arm to 

 remove a Benton slug, deposited 17 years previous; and while still 

 wrestling "with one of the most factions corrupt oppositions in the 

 secrete sessions of the Senate that ever disgraced any nation," 

 Jackson wrote to "My Revd. Friend:" 



"I thank you for your friendly offer of an interest in your fine 

 Horse. But Andrew is now married, and I mean to throw the care 

 of the farm on him, I shall never more pester myself with this worlds 

 wealth My only ambition is to get to the Hermitage so soon as the 

 interest of my country and the will of the people will permit me, and 

 there to set my House in order & to go to sleep along side of My 

 Dr Departed Wife." 



