Lot 136
Confederacy "Approved/ by command/ Brig. Genl. Ripley/ B.H. Read/ Adj.", notation on flap of a blockade cover to Canada, this being a mourning envelope from the Irving correspondence to Drummondville, Canada from Cordesville, South Carolina, clear albino (uninked) strike of "Nassau Paid 11 Jy. 63" c.d.s. on face, opened at sides for display and mounted on paper, Fine and rare.
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000
Accompanying this cover is a Oct. 19, 1862 letter from the same correspondence, which notes, "a friend from these parts, on her way north, under a flag of truce, has kindly offered to take letters for us." The letter also mentions the writer's brother, John Irving, an artist who at the time was attending court "in the capacity of Confederate States marshal." A portrait painter in Charleston at the start of the war, he moved to New York City in 1866 and died there in 1877h.
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