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Item# 18084
Price: $400
CSA 1, 5¢ green used in combination with CSA 7, 5¢ blue tied together by ROBERTVILLE / S.C. // OCT / 18 [1862] cds with date in magenta manuscript, on diminutive homemade cover to J. W. Heidt, Savannah Ga., slight staining affects the 5¢ lithograph otherwise Very Fine. Original anguished letter concerning sick relatives and hoping won’t be taken away from them too, also Ma not wanting her to go because of potential Yankee shelling of the city. SCARCE AND ATTRACTIVE MIXED FRANKING. $400.
JOHN W. HEIDT, DD, (1841-1909), graduate, Emory College, 1859; law-graduate, University of Georgia, 186l; practiced law but gave it up for the Methodist ministry; many years a trustee of Wesleyan Female College, as well as former President.
CSA 1-2