{"id":107056,"date":"2021-05-24T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107056"},"modified":"2021-05-23T01:47:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T06:47:13","slug":"letter-from-mrs-president-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/letter-from-mrs-president-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Mrs. President Davis."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Daily Advocate<\/em><br \/>\nBaton Rouge<br \/>\nMay 24, 1861<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The following letter, from Mrs. Jefferson Davis, was written in acknowledgment of the receipt of a beautiful work-box, manufactured and presented to her by several patriotic misses of this city. Gracefully worded and beautifully written, we present it to our readers and let it speak for itself.\u2014Petersburg, (Va.) <em>Express<\/em>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Montgomery, Ala., April 29, 1861.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">My Dear Young Ladies.\u2014Permit me, before thanking you for your kind present and wishes for my husband&#8217;s welfare, to congratulate you upon the secession of Virginia\u2014the birthplace of my mother, as well as yours.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The elder and honored sister of the Southern States, is received with tearful joy among us, and many hands will fashion stars with which to mark this brilliant accession to our galaxy.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The possession of a work box manufactured by little Southern girls, so industrious, so enthusiastic and so patriotic, will be much prized by me, and I will leave it to my daughter with the note which precedes it, as a precious legacy. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Long ere you reach the responsibility of useful womanhood, may we have united peace to independence in our Southern Confederacy.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Wishing you, my dear young friends, a long, a happy life, I have the honor to be,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Very respectfully and sincerely, your friend,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Varina Davis.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Advocate Baton Rouge May 24, 1861 The following letter, from Mrs. Jefferson Davis, was written in acknowledgment of the receipt of a beautiful work-box, manufactured and presented to her by several patriotic misses of this city. Gracefully worded and beautifully written, we present it to our readers and let it speak for itself.\u2014Petersburg, (Va.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}