2021-10 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/15/2021
Printed “Merry Christmas” Letter Signed in ink by “Mrs. C.B. Smith, (wife of Caleb Blood Smith) 1pp. octavo, December 8, 1862, Washington, and reads in small part: “...Merry Christmas is at hand, and while we participate in its festivities and enjoy the good things which a kind and merciful Providence has vouchsafed to give us, let us not be unmindful of our soldiers in hospital in this city and vicinity. Having taken their lives in their hands for the defence of our beloved Union, received wounds, and contracted disease while in the discharge of their duty, shall these gallant men be forgotten while we rejoice?...” Much more. Fine condition.
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