Thomas Waring Mikell Papers PDF Download

Author: Thomas Waring Mikell
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Category : Autographs
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Consisting chiefly of correspondence with Confederate officers and public figures re autograph collecting, also reflecting sentiments immediately after the war as well as information concerning activities of former officers. Includes letter, 2 August 1866, Greenville, Mississippi, from Samuel Gibbs French, "General P.H. Sheridan has forbidden that any monument shall be erected in commemoration of the confederate dead in his department. I hope the ladies of your city will not be denied the execution of their patriotic undertaking or be ordered to take it down, when finished, by the modern iconoclasts" ; 11 September 1866, Richmond, Virginia, from Henry A. Wise, "I trust your fair will be hallowed with a success which belongs to the gratitude of a people for the most illustrious of fallen men in a righteous cause which failed only for want of enough men like those who fell" ; 11 June 1879, Edisto Island, from John Jenkins, "Cotton fluctuates so in price even when there is prompt sale at fair prices that even if it should sell well this year, as is quite probable, we would have no reason to expect a continuance of remunerative values, for any number of years" ; 29 July 1879, from William Waters Boyce, Washington, D.C., re James H. Nash ; 6 September 1879, from William Porcher Miles, Sweet Springs, West Virginia, re confederate flags ; 8 June 1882, from John Smythe Richardson, Washington, D.C., advising that he cannot sent volumes 2-5 of "War of the R[ebellion]" ; 27 January 1887, from John Peter Richardson, sending autograph and explaining his relationship to the previous Govs. Richardson ; 14 December 1889, from John James Patterson, Bloomington, Illinois, sending autograph.