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Item# 20090
Price: $350
Confederate States of America, Department of State. Imprinted cover (DS-02, CCV $750 for imprint,) with a red wax seal of the Department of State on back flap. Hand-carried to Edwin de Leon, Esq., Paris, Care of Dr. Girard.Large opening tear across top. Rare use. $350.
Listed in both Miscellaneous-2 and Imprints-2
Edwin de Leon (1818-1891) was a Confederate diplomat, writer, and journalist. He was born in Columbia, S.C., of Sephardic Jewish parents. His father was Mordecai Hendricks de Leon, a physician and three-term mayor of Columbia, S.C. His mother was Rebecca Lopez de Leon. As a Confederate diplomatic agent on a confidential mission for President Jefferson Davis, he was received in the highest circles, both in England and in France, and personally pleaded the cause of the Confederacy with Lord Palmerston and the emperor Napoleon.