1858 – Letter urging an immediate suit in a convoluted inheritance to recover four slaves from the son of a dead executor of a South Carolina estate who was now also on his deathbed.
Shiloh, South Carolina: 1858. Envelope or Cover. One-page letter dated November 25, 1858, from John L. Gamble of Shiloh, South Carolina, to Messers Spain & Richardson in Sumter. The letter is enclosed in its original mailing envelope franked with 3-cent, dull-red Washington stamp (Scott #26). The cover bears a manuscript..... More