Based on the writings of Mary Donelson, describes the party her great uncle, President Andrew Jackson, gave for the nieces and nephews living with him on his last Christmas in the White House.

The boyhood of the South Carolinian who fought against the British and the Indians and became seventh President of the United States.

Scope and content: Originally begun in 1937, and completed in 1962, John B. Beckett's "Empty Honors" is a fictional account of a feud between the Donnovan and Roy families in the early settlement period of Tennessee, and along the way includes "thumb-nail sketches of many renown people of Tennessee, war heroes, and legends" and poems. The typescript is divided into four parts, and an outline of each part is included at the beginning of the typescript....