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12 manuscript letters: four pages, Tucker to his wife, London, March 2, 1862, referring to Union blockade; four pages to his daughter, Havana, Cuba, July 11, 1862, "…Captain General Don Francisco Serrano…and almost every one here, except…Lincoln's Consul and his spies, are warmly and quietly active with us…"; three pages to his wife, Paris, 1862, mentioning General Banks' defeat at Winchester; three letters to Tucker, Paris, 1863, discussing the war, "…Sewards' Lies, Cammeron's thefts, Lincoln's effrontery…had thrown upon the would be Yankee nobility of Paris such a moral…discredit, that the civilized society of the French…forced them to return to the land of white slavery…"; one December 27, 1861, to him regarding "running the Blockade"; 1862 letter in French to the Confederate Minister of War, listing infantry equipment; four letters, October-December, 1862, two each in English and in French, regarding Confederate warships ordered from French shipbuilders, 7-1/8 x 4-3/8 in. to 10-1/2 x 8-1/4 in., with two original envelopes, (14 pieces). Folds, separations, stains, small losses throughout. Provenance: Private Collection Beverly Tucker was a Virginia circuit judge who became a Confederate diplomatic agent during the American Civil War.
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