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BEVERLY TUCKER FAMILY PAPERS

68A. BEVERLY TUCKER FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE A sizeable and fine content collection of letters from the family of the Confederate agent and alleged Lincoln assassination conspirator BEVERLY TUCKER . The collection consists of 62 letters and documents date between 1830 and 1889 and include numerous correspondence including BEVERLY TUCKER, BEVERLY TUCKER, JR., NATHANIEL BEVERLY TUCKER (1784 - 1851), father of Beverly and his mother DANA MARLA WASHINGTON (wife of Beverly Jr., and daughter of John Augustine Washington), JANE L. TUCKER, STEPHEN DILL LEE, THOMAS H. ELLIS,, CHARLES ELLIS and others. One of the better letters in the collection includes a BEVERLY TUCKER A.L.S. 1p. 8vo., "Peruvian" Nov, 18, 1865 to Col. Thomas Ellis sending his farewells as he leaves for exile: "I have been sending off from my heart, a few parting words of live & affection, to our brothers & sisters; & from whom, have I received warmer tokens of this beautiful relationship, than from your darling wife, and your good generous self! May our good Father watch over, strengthen & preserve you both & your little boy) in very trial in this world, & permit us all to be reunited in His Kingdom in the Earnest prayer of Your affectionately attached brother, Beverly Tucker." Some other highlights of this collection include some very good content A.L.S.'s of Beverly son BEVERLY TUCKER, JR. who was in college in Toronto soon after the war. They read in very small part: "...[Toronto, Nov. 26, 1865]...A week has gone by since you sailed, and if your voyage has been prosperous you must now be nearing England. We have followed you in imagination day after day... [Niagara, Canada West, July 6, 1866 to his father in Mexico]... Do not think, my dear Father, that in this matter we were actuated entirely by feelings of inclination - I know what your feelings as an exile must be, and so not wonder that you have to see your sons under a government which has done so much to embitter your life - I hope however you may approve of this course... We have had quite an addition to our Southern Colony here: the arrival of Mr. Mason & family...[Niagara June 23, 1866 to his father]... Gen. Breckenridge, Major Helm and all your friends are well living plainly here, and the first named are as kind as ever. I see by the papers that you have become editor of the Mexican Times - is it so?..." Other fine letters pre-date the war including a fine content A.L.S. of BEVERLY TUCKER, 8pp., 4to., Liverpool, Feb. 17, 1858 to his brother: "...I am disgusted [unaligned] with the trade & the traders in this once dignified & admirable creation[?]! I would sooner see my boys laid under the sod, than see them looking even in the direction of Politics..." Also included is a good content A.L.S. of Tucker to Jefferson Davis, 2pp. 12mo., Washington, Aug. 12, 1854: "...Permit me to enclose you my editorial of this morning in reply to a rude charge of the `Rochester Democrat' that in my support of the veto for the Presdt. of the Burr & Harlous[?] Bill, I was influenced by the `actual receipt of Executive favors' I am quite sure that, as my denial this morning wholly acquits any department of the Government of so unworthy a charge as the attempt to bribe the `Washington Sentinel' upon its part, you will do like me, like justice, in stating that it is entirely without foundation, so far as I myself am concerned..."He repeats his statement to President Franklin Pierce in an A.L.S. of the same date. In a later and probably secretarial letter, 2pp. legal folio, Berkeley Springs, Nov. 22, 1888 Tucker writes to president-elect Benjamin Harrison regarding "...the probable policy, of your administration toward the South' The patriotic & conservative sentiments contained in your answer should be satisfactory to all, & must have the effect of quieting...all apprehensions...toward material progress & prosperity, with `none to make them afraid'. The fact is, it has not been `negro equality' their civil rights before the law, - that the Southern people have feared, or that they were disposed to interfere with - but it has been, negro supremacy, that has been attempted, to be instilled into the minds of this ignorant & newly enfranchised race, that the evil & mischief making element of `carpet baggers' who infest the Southern States, that gives our people so much concern - indeed in the negro belts, - so much cause for alarm..." Other letters from Tucker include a letter of condolence to Hamilton Fish upon the loss of his wife in 1887; a good content letter to John Slidell attempting to obtain the office of Marshal for Washington, D.C. in 1859. More fine content material and very worthy of further research! Letters bear the usual folds, a few are a bit toned and bear fold splits, but most are clean in very good condition.$2,000-3,000

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