Z 0043.000
ROSENSTOCK (FRED A.)DAVIS (JEFFERSON) PAPERS
1847 - 1910
Correspondence of Jefferson and Varina Howell Davis, Mrs. Margaret Davis
Hayes and Lucy Hayes, collected by Fred A. Rosenstock of Denver, Colorado.
Included are:
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a letter dated November 30, 1847, from Jefferson Davis to Secretary of
War W. L. Marcy recommending rifles made by Eli Whitney
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eight bonds with coupons issued by the Confederate States of America, dated
April 12, 1862April 30, 1863
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a letter from Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, September 14, 1863, concerning
troop movements
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letters from former members of the Confederate cabinet (18731866), including
Judah P. Benjamin, Robert Toombs, C. G. Memminger and John H. Reagan
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letter from Davis to Paul H. Hayne, January 25, 1885
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letter from Davis to Z. T. Wood, May 26, 1886.
Letters to Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Hayes and Miss Hayes are as follows:
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twenty-six items from 18901898, including letters from L. B. Northrop,
Thomas Nelson Page, Alexander Stephens, J. B. Gordon and Stephen D. Lee
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twenty-eight items from 18991904, including letters from Charles Dudley
Warner, Wade Hampton, S. D. Lee, Joseph Pulitzer and Fitzhugh Lee
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fifteen items from 19041910, including letters from James K. Vardaman,
Stephen D. Lee, Ambrose Lee, Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan.
The volume is an autograph album containing autographs of the Confederate
cabinet and of U.S. officials.