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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1077

Civil War: Good content early Civil War letter from CSA Postal Clerk Joseph F. Lewis to Christopher Gustavus Memminger regarding clerkship for a young Southern man who has fled Washington, D.C.. Three pages on CSA Post Office Dept. folio stationery, Montgomery, May 20, 1861. Writing to CSA Secretary of the Treasury C.G. Memminger a little over a month after hostilities began, Lewis asks a personal favor, a clerkship for a friend. A family Lewis knew who resided in Washington, D.C. for 12 years has been broken up "by the difficulties in the city, for being Southern people they could not live there longer." A young man of that family had a job there with which he supported the rest of the family. That young man Stephen Duncan has arrived in Montgomery. He is "a citizen of Louisiana, and says the Delegation here from there will unite in recommending him." Application note in center column of three-part fold. Large, clear hand. Fine.

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$110