Address panel ("cover" part of folded letter)
Letter, page 2
Letter, page 3

“Strother [SC] P 5 Aug 14 ‘61” (not so listed in CSA Catalog, “P 5” instead of listed “Pd 5) all in manuscript on 4-page folded letter to Honorable F. W. Pickens, Governor of South Carolina Columbia from William Strother Lyle who is confined at home with a spinal disease and spends most of the letter speculating on the subject of guns and arms in great detail, a very interesting read. The letter is one sheet folded to make four pages. It has a large Eagle watermark. Each of the four pages are 7.75” by 9.75 inches” and folded as mailed is 4.625” x 3.125.”  $350.

Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens was a long serving political figure in South Carolina. He was governor during first part of Civil War. His home was Hopewell Plantation in Pickens County. William Strother Lyles (1817-1862) was a doctor and surgeon in Fairfield County, Oaks Plantation. He was a signer of the Secession Ordinance and member of legislature.

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