CSA 4a and 6, 5¢ dark blue lithograph and 5¢ blue typograph, stamps with faults, tied together by overlapping ANDERSON / S.C.town cancels to Mrs. J.E. Hagood, Pickens C.H., So.Ca., docketing on verso indicates letter was from Sallie Partlou. Most attractive and SCARCE MIXED FRANKING. $450.

James Earle Hagood (1826-1904) served as clerk of the circuit court throughout the period of the Civil War and frequently was called upon to perform services for soldiers who were away in the army and for civilians who were destitute as a result of the war. He was a lawyer and planter in the Pickens District.