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| Scott Number | 1 |
|---|---|
| Date | February 2, 1851 |
| From City | Mobile |
| From State | AL |
| To City | Pensacola |
| To State | FL |
| Addressee | Mrs. W. T. Walthall |
| Cert Author | |
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| Fake | |
| Quantity 1 | 1 |
| Quantity 2 | 0 |
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Lot 54 #1, 5c Brown, large margins all around, rich color, sharp impression from the reworked plate, tied by brilliant red paint grid Mobile Ala FEB 1 pmk, overstruck with blue pmk with Feb 2 date on buff envelope to Pensacola, Fla, neatly docketed (1851) at left, extremely fine, a rare usage
Sotheby sale S43
Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. sale 1041 lot 95 ex Garrett and Boker realized 1100
Alexander listed as 2/1/51 but should be dated 2/2/51
Robert G. Kaufmann sale 61 (Elite) lot 287 (image)
Docket at left reads No. 5 / From my husband / Recd Feb 8, 1851.
Letter sent in care of Benjamin Drake Wright (1799-1874), lawyer, journalist, and Whig politician who served in Territorial Legislature, the State Senate, and as a Florida Supreme Court justice in 1853. He became president of the Alabama and Florida Railroad in 1856. He served on the 1865 constitutional convention following the Civil War.
Letter sent to the wife of William Tecumseh Walthall (1820-1899). He served as a Captain in the 12th Alabama Infantry, Company 1 (Southern Foresters) and by the end of the war had risen to major.
An accomplished teacher and scholar for a long time connected with the Mobile Register. In 1876 he moved from Alabama to Gulf Coast Mississippi to assist President Jefferson Davis with his book, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate States, of which he was the purported “ghost writer.” Walthall’s papers are in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson. In 1875, he became the editor of the Mobile Cycle, a weekly newspaper (8 pages, published on Saturday).
William was married to Mary Brooks Dorr (1827-1863) in 1849 and together had 8 children. She was the daughter of Ebenezer Dorr (1787-1846) and sister to Anna Worcester Dorr (1833-1923) and James William Dorr (1830-1912). In 1863, after Mary’s death, William married Anna and together had 7 children. The Dorr’s were from Pensacola, Florida.
Sotheby sale S43
Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. sale 1041 lot 95 ex Garrett and Boker realized 1100
Alexander listed as 2/1/51 but should be dated 2/2/51
Robert G. Kaufmann sale 61 (Elite) lot 287 (image)
Docket at left reads No. 5 / From my husband / Recd Feb 8, 1851.
Letter sent in care of Benjamin Drake Wright (1799-1874), lawyer, journalist, and Whig politician who served in Territorial Legislature, the State Senate, and as a Florida Supreme Court justice in 1853. He became president of the Alabama and Florida Railroad in 1856. He served on the 1865 constitutional convention following the Civil War.
Letter sent to the wife of William Tecumseh Walthall (1820-1899). He served as a Captain in the 12th Alabama Infantry, Company 1 (Southern Foresters) and by the end of the war had risen to major.
An accomplished teacher and scholar for a long time connected with the Mobile Register. In 1876 he moved from Alabama to Gulf Coast Mississippi to assist President Jefferson Davis with his book, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate States, of which he was the purported “ghost writer.” Walthall’s papers are in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson. In 1875, he became the editor of the Mobile Cycle, a weekly newspaper (8 pages, published on Saturday).
William was married to Mary Brooks Dorr (1827-1863) in 1849 and together had 8 children. She was the daughter of Ebenezer Dorr (1787-1846) and sister to Anna Worcester Dorr (1833-1923) and James William Dorr (1830-1912). In 1863, after Mary’s death, William married Anna and together had 7 children. The Dorr’s were from Pensacola, Florida.
