Raynors HCA 2016-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/21/2016
War-date letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Laura J. Morgan (who is the recipient of all the Thurston letters offered here), Sunbury, Pa., April 18, 1865, to her beau Lt. William M. Thurston, Battery F (Ricketts), 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, in part: "…well I cannot overcome the awful murder of Lincoln. The people seem to be crazy with excitement and anger. I do not know how I feel in regard to his assassination. On Saturday, I thought it a false rumor but afterwards was compelled to believe the terrible fact. Those who are willfully prejudiced say that he has been murdered by the democratic party, a plot long premeditated by the Knights of the Golden Circle…I feel very sorry that such a wicked crime should be committed as much as anyone, but when we are slurred and told of it as being members and entertaining the same feelings that the assassin did tis not pleasant and has tendency to…change the mind…God bless and Angels guard my best friend…L. J. M." Light soiling, else VG
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