| Summary: | In the letter Moore discusses a conversation he had with Coffee and President Andrew Jackson the previous summer, regarding the conflict between himself and Colonel John McKinley. (McKinley allegedly did not support Moore's nephew for the post of U.S. marshal; Moore later defeated McKinley in the Senate election of 1831.) In this letter Moore disagrees with Coffee's account of the meeting: "The best memory as you observe is liable to err...I would if convinced that I had mistated [sic] our conversation most cheerfully correct the statement, but my recollection of it is neither dim nor doubtful, and whatever impressions it made on your mind, there is not on mine the slightest doubt that I did not inform you that I was satisfied with the conduct of Colo. McK. nor that I should not become a candidate, nor that he had nothing to fear from my opposition to him. My friendship to the President it is true, had in some degree softened the asperity of my feeling towards him...But to have sent messages of friendship to him or to have used expressions on which he could have founded a hope that I would support him or that I would not myself become a candidate, in any manner except as refered [sic] to in the first conversation & as have been previously intimated in this letter, I must first have forgotten that he had acted deceitfully & treacherously towards me."
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