Responding to a request for an autograph with a poem, in an autograph letter, signed by Fontaine April 2, 1903, on his Lyon, Mississippi, business letterhead, to “J. T. Dennis, University Club, Baltimore, Maryland.”
Small 4to. One-page, approximately 60 words, in part: “I do not feel that I am a very prominent Confederate. I only tried to do my duty, as my God given conscience dictated for[:] “Of all our race, ‘tis note the fate, / To shine among the princely great. / Let..... More