CSA 11, 10¢ blue (4 ample to huge margins) tied neat NINETY SIX / S.C. // JUL / 19 (1864) CDS with contents docketing dating it to July 18, 1864, from R. Chancy to Rev. J. P. Boyce, Greenville, S.C., original letter saying Chancy has not prepared his turnip land yet and invites Boyce to come see him, Ex MacBride and Doug Baker. $170. Ex Doug Baker.

James Petigru Boyce (1827-1888) was an intellectually gifted Southern Baptist pastor, theologian, author, and educator who was a chaplain for a Confederate regiment of volunteers from Greenville, a Representative to the S.C. Legislature, and aide-de-camp to the governor of South Carolina. Boyce was founder (1859) and first president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The seminary was forced to close during the war, but he restarted it after the war. His legacy lives on to this day through the seminary he devoted his life to establishing and preserving.