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Sale 120
Lot 365
United States, James Buchanan Exhibit, Historical Letters, 1858 Walker Wars, to James L. Kemper, Confederate General and later Governor of Virginia from H. Caven, Mobile, Ala., Dec. 1858, very interesting and diverse content in 3 page letter, mentions yellow fever, itemizes living expenses in Mobile, discusses Democratic political environment in Mobile and Walker going to Nicaragua, "…I pay $12 a month for a woman to cook, $10 per month for a house servant girl, $15 per month for a gardener, 75¢ per cord for cutting my wood & I hall it with my yard hands. My grocery bill is $60 per month, never less than $50. You will say that is extravagant, yet I cannot do with less… General Wm Walker is in Mobile about 300 emigrants shipped out on the 5th just for Nicaragua, they were stopped 6 miles below Mobile by a U S vessel but they made there escape and perhaps have landed in Nicaragua, old Buck (Pres. Buchanan) don't stand high in Mobile as a large majority are for Walker". Partial of the content described.
Estimate $160-200.
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