Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 to Frank H. Alfriend
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05344.02 Author/Creator: Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 Place Written: Memphis, Tennessee Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 28 April 1871 Pagination: 2 p. ; 27.8 x 21.3 cm. Order a Copy
Marked "Private" at the top. Davis has not been able to obtain a copy of the biography which Alfriend wrote. The book is available only through subscription. He heard the book was "the best work on the subject which had been produced." He encourages Alfriend to write a history of the war between the states that would do "justice to our Section . . . ." He continues: "The severe ordeal of War and the still harder test of unrestrained power in the hands of the successful combattant [sic], have shed a flood of light on the questions which were discussed in the formation of the plan of Union and continued to be [inserted: the] theme on which the best talent of the country labored. . . . . [M]y papers were captured so that I cannot offer such records as I once proposed."
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