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Varina Davis

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Varina Davis

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Auction Date:2012 Nov 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS signed “Varina Jefferson Davis,” six pages on two sets of adjoining sheets, 4 x 6, black-bordered stationery, January 13, 1899. Letter to Dr. J. M. Callahan. In part: “Your’s has been received and I wish I could feel that an examination of my husbands papers would shed a little light upon the diplomatic relations of the Confederate government with foreign nations, but every paper Mr Davis had of much importance was seized except those which accidentally fell into the hands of an ignorant young man in Richmond who gave them out as autographs to many of his friends…It is my happiness to know that the more our Confederate archives are investigated the more hightly [sic] the character of those who were the authors of them will appear. I shall go to New Orleans in Feb or March then if I can find any one fitted for the task I will have Mr Davis’ papers indexed. Mr Davis was greatly astonished at Mr Bigelow’s statements in the book he wrote and said the facts were most astonishingly perverted. Col Ambrose Dudley Mann transcribed his very exact and reliable memory of our diplomatic relations with England in a kind of diary or resumé of his long and useful as well as honorable diplomatic career, and left the task of editing them to my daughter now deceased.” Davis also adds a brief postscript which reads, “It has occurred to me that if you will write to Col Palfrey of the Louisiana Hist. Soc. he can probably put you in communication with some of Duncan Kenners relations who might find his papers for you. It is worth the trial.” Scattered toning and soiling to first and last page, not affecting legibility, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by an unrelated black-bordered mailing envelope, postmarked May 18, 1899, addressed by Margaret Howell Davis Hayes, the sole surviving child of President and Mrs. Davis, to “Col E. Palfrey, Howard Memorial Hall, Camp Street. New Orleans,” and signed by her in the upper left.
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