Letter from President John Tyler from the Papers of Mordecai Manuel Noah, 1842

Letter dated September 5, 1842 from President John Tyler to Noah, Raymond, Fowler, Walden, and other prominent gentlemen regarding an invitation to visit New York.Mordecai Manuel Noah was born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1785. He was the first son of Manuel Noah, an immigrant from Mannheim, Germany who had served in the Revolutionary War, and Zipporah Phillips, whose grandfather served as Hazan of the Shearith Israel Congregation of New York. Noah engaged in writing in various forms throughout his life. As a playwright he wrote Fortress of Sorrento (1808), She Would Be a Soldier (1819), and Siege of Tripoli (1820). Noah was one of the most conspicuous figures in early American journalism, beginning with editing Charleston’s City Gazette. He later published and edited New York’s National Advocate and several other newspapers, including publishing the New York Enquirer from 1826 to 1829. He was appointed as the U.S. Consul to the Kingdom of Tunis in 1813. Upon his return to the United States in 1816, Noah settled in New York where he lived for the rest of his life and where he was heavily involved in community activities. He served as Sheriff, Judge, and Surveyor of the Port in New York, and resumed his journalism career.Digital imagereviewe