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Lot 87

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[CIVIL WAR]. Letter from a southern woman, "Jennie D," regarding England's relationship with the Confederacy, with cover marked "Southn Letter Unpaid." 5 June 1861.


2 pages, 5 x 2 3/4 in., discoloration and chipping to edges. With postally used envelope addressed to "Miss Marie H. Peck" of New York via Nashville, TN, with handstamp reading, "Southn (sic) Letter Unpaid." 

Jennie writes: "I think England will at no distant day 'acknowledge our Independence.' she has already acknowledged us as 'Beligerants' (sic) which amounts to pretty much the same thing. I think too that she will interfere with the 'Blockade' before long. I do not feel any way obliged to 'her Magesty' (sic) for I know she is not acting from 'disinterested motives.' If it was to her interest, she would crush us. (if she would). We want none of her 'assistance' except to 'acknowledge our Confederac[y].' I wish very much that the 'Southern Confederacy could be named either 'Washington' or 'Columbia.' I incline to the latter name."


Property from the Civil War and Militaria Collection of George Sanders of Albuquerque, New Mexico

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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