Auction Date:2010 Jun 16 @ 10:00 (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
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Wife of Jefferson Davis and First Lady of the Confederacy. ALS, four pages both sides, 5.75 x 8.25, personal letterhead, January 26, 1870. Letter to Mrs. Cobb. In part, “I had conjured up a thousand mournful pictures to account for your silence, and thankful that I can once more feel your heart beat across the weary miles between us…The news you give one of the profession of faith made by your dear children is very grateful to me…I so often thank God that you are not goaded by a garish sense of newness in your surroundings…The mark of Cain seems to be on me without his sin…What a blessed thing it is to lose one’s identity when it has been an oppressive exacting identity notably notorious rather than glorious…If God spares me to go to America again I will go to you in my old age as I did in my youthful sorrow, and without exposing my disease receive the remedy of your loving sympathy.” In very good condition, with light overall toning to pages, some partial separations along fragile mailing folds, including one complete separation to first page, and light show-through from text on reverse. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Davis’s hand.
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