2006-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/31/2006
Pair of Autograph Letters Signed “W.H. Anderson” from Natchez, Mississippi, to family in Connecticut, includes: ALS, 4p. octavo, December 1, 1859, in part: “...Christmas is reallya great occassion here, especially for the negroes. The gardner, an old black fellow, asked me the other day, how long it was to Christmas, I told him ‘Ah - said he - dats de time to hop ub & down’. I asked him if he hopped up then and he replied ‘No! When I goes to jumps up, I tumbles down.’ He said however that ‘some of dem, does’ - The negroes I believe then have a week or so to make merry in, and also have various ‘goodies’ as they call them to eat. They are busy now making the dresser for them. They also get their presents then...” VG...plus; ALS, 6p. octavo, March 3, 1860, with descriptive instructions of how to build and run a primitive saw mill using slave labor, which concludes with “Perhaps they intend to get the country into one of these sawmills and then with one slave above and the other below, they will split it through the border between slave and free states. Gov. Houston of Texas says if there is a dissolution of the Union, that state will go back to its former independence...” Fine.
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