(CIVIL WAR) DAVIS JEFFERSON Autograph Letter Signed

Sale 2043 - Lot 28

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ON HIS "BITTEREST TRIALS" (CIVIL WAR.) DAVIS, JEFFERSON. Autograph Letter Signed, to Reverend J. T. Freeman, thanking him for a proposed endowment to support the former President of the Confederacy, writing that while everything was taken away from him he is now working again, but that the offer makes him proud of his former followers. 2 pages, folded 8vo sheet with integral blank. Memphis, 25 November 1869

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" . . . I am happy to assure you that the supposed necessity for the purpose of relieving which you and your associates proposed an endowment for myself and family, does not now exist. It is true as you feared that all my property was lost and nothing has been restored to me, but now I am permitted to engage in the ordinary business of life . . . Believe me Sir that I feel rich in such love as that manifested and rejoice in the confirmation it gives to the proud confidence in our People, which was my consolation in bitterest trials . . ."