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DAVIS, JEFFERSON

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DAVIS, JEFFERSON
(1808 - 1889) President of the Confederacy who led his armies beyond the surrender at Appomattox. Rare S.P., a carte-de-visite image by Washburn's of New Orleans, showing Davis in a chest, up pose. Boldly signed on the mount beneath the image. Evenly toned, handsomely mounted to another sheet and ready for framing. Along with an A.L.S. signed ""Jefferson Davis"" in the hand of VARINA DAVIS, 2pp. 8vo., Beavoir, Apr. 27, 1889, to Virginia Rell, referring to mutual friends, and adding: ""...I am gratified to know that like a true woman of the south, you are training your sons in the way they should go, but I trust they may not suffer so severe an ordeal as that through which we have passed..."". In just fair condition, with significant offsetting, fold tears, marginal chipping and loss. Two items.