Raynors HCA 2017-12
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/7/2017
A great early war-date Southern Belle's letter, 2pp. 8vo., written by Sue Kidder, Wilmington, N. C., April 16, [1861], to her college student brother Edward Kidder. Edward was one of the few Southerners who did not leave Harvard College following the outbreak of the Civil War, reading, in part: "I do want to see you very much, but I am so glad you are not home now. Everything is sad & exciting and it seems to me I should have been about crazy if you and G. were home and members of our military companies…they are all ordered soon to Fort Caswell and yesterday they started. The town seems almost desolate…nearly all of the young men belonged to the L. infantry. No one knows how long they are going to stay…Arney[?] came up Monday to tell me goodbye, but I did not feel at all well that day and was excused from all company though I should have seen him. If I had known he was going away. I saw him in the company several times since, but of course not [allowed] to speak to him as they have been shut up in the armory ever since. Ma and Pa do not want you and Georgie to come home unless you are sent for…as Mary writes you now I suppose she tells you all about herself. I see her about everyday. She is quite a "belle" here though her heart is way off in a quiet little town in the eastern part of Mass. called Cambridge…Sue."
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