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- GLC#
- GLC02382.115-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- circa 1871
- Author/Creator
- Cooper, Sarah Maria Mason, 1800-1890
- Title
- to Henry Jackson Hunt
- Place Written
- Alexandria, Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 19.8 cm, Width: 12.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Mentions correspondence between Hunt, Emily Virginia Mason, and Richard Coulter Drum (refer to GLC2382.113 and .114). Thanks Hunt for the exertions he has made, with Mason and Drum (concerning financial matters, pertaining to her husband General Samuel Cooper). Relates that the General's health is poor, "but I am sure that he would agree with me, and with the other members of my family, that we must decline your kind aid. We cannot avail ourselves of help from your noble generosity- Accept for yourself our most kind regards... " Emily Virginia Mason corresponded with Hunt in 1871 and 1872 regarding her biography of Robert E. Lee. Through Drum and Mason, Hunt had attempted to anonymously give the Cooper's financial assistance. It had been suggested in previous correspondence that General Cooper would refuse Hunt's assistance, because Cooper had served the Confederacy and Hunt served the Union.
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