Denying knowledge of the whereabouts of some records in an autograph letter, signed 21 December 1859, from Washington, D.C., to Pendleton Stewart in Louisville, Kentucky.
4to. 1-page, approximately 100 words. In part: "They may have been burnt … All my own books and papers were boxed up and were burnt in a large fire which took place in a fire at Memphis almost a year ago." Accompanied by an earlier letter from William A. Goodwyn..... More