July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
War-date Autograph Letter Signed by a Union civilian woman, April 16, 1865, 4pp. octavo, Stowe, Massachusetts, and reads in part: “...This is a day of mourning for our truly afflicted country. A sad finale to the war - one which will engender more hatred toward the South than any other incident of the struggle....We have to go to Boston for a few things necessary for the trip which with house cleaning and gardening which have to be attended to before we leave...My woman Mrs. Wilder is equal to the cares and is not tired. She is rather too common in her ideas of things generally to suit me. Not so good a cook as Lucy & not half so quick yet she will take better care of most things and do some that Lucy did not. Don’t believe I shall ever find one to suit me better than Lucy...” Fine condition.
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