New Orleans.Supreme Court.Jefferson Davis. Ltr to, 1853

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As the scans may show this is a rather tatty letter, but for a few words it remains quite legible. We would not offer it at all but for the fact it is addressed to Jefferson Davis, and presumably docketted by him. The letter has several repaired splits, and the right edge is quite rough with the roughage affecting perhaps three or four words, though some of the roughage can probably be smoothed out. The letter is dated at New Orleans, February 26, 1853, and has four pages of which three are correspondence and the docket on the last page. The letter is from Thomas I. Durant. The reader will note that the letter is dated just a few weeks before Davis took office as Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce. Durant refers to the details of a legal case, and expresses regret he did not have a chance to meet with Davis when he was in New Orleans but Durant was tardily "informed that you left the City by the mail boat for Mobile yesterday, and have thus been deprived of the pleasure of paying my respects." Several paragrpahs are given to patronage matters, with Durant urging Davis to support Dr. M. Cannon of New Orleans "for the office of inspector of live oak in this state." - first time we've ever heard of this office. In another paragraph he writes, "It seems Certain that to Mr. Pierce will be left the duty of appointing a judge read more

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