This collection consists of a single letter from John B. Brownlow to William G. McAdoo on February 4, 1890. In it, Brownlow recalls a speech that Andrew Johnson (who was then campaigning for John Breckinridge, candidate of the southern wing of the Democratic Party) gave from the Lamar House (now the Bijou Theater) in downtown Knoxville before the 1860 presidential election. Brownlow remembers that Johnson attacked Abraham Lincoln, saying that the South should not submit to his election, and asks McAdoo if he can confirm his recollections.