CSA 11, 10¢ blue with large to huge margins all around, fresh color and proof-like impression, tied by WADESBORO / N.C. // 19 ? CDS on cover imprinted "Official Business, Chief Enrolling Office, Seventh Congressional District, Wadesboro', N(C) (WD-CN-15), addressed to L.M. Scott, Esqr., Greensboro N.C., slightly reduced at right just into end of imprint, Extremely Fine Gem stamp on a rare semi-official imprint cover, Molesworth note on verso saying the only one recorded, to which I cannot attest, but likely as it is the LISTING COPY. $600.

Levi M. Scott (1827-1911) was a teacher, lawyer, postmaster and NC State Representative. He was postmaster of Greensboro in 1851 but resigned in 1853 after his election as clerk of the superior court in Guilford County. In 1858 Scott was elected solicitor of Guilford County for a four-year term. He was reelected in 1862 and also appointed receiver of sequestered property by the Confederate government. In the post of receiver, which he held until the end of the war, his duties involved collecting all debts owed to Northern creditors from Southern debtors for the benefit of the Confederate states. Also during the war, the law offices of Levi and his brother, William L., who maintained a joint practice, were used temporarily by Governor Zebulon B. Vance while he was avoiding the chaotic conditions of Raleigh. Thus, it was in Scott's office that Vance wrote his surrender proclamation when the war ended. In 1861 Scott married Mary Eliza Weatherly, the daughter of Andrew Weatherly, mayor of Greensboro, who was grandfather of the late A. Earl Weatherly (1895-1981), esteemed in the philatelic world and inducted in the APS Hall of Fame in 1984. Earl’s book, The First Hundred Years of Historic Guilford, 1771-1871 (1972) gave the social and postal history of this North Carolina town. One of his last articles, “A Confederate Find from ‘The Land of Eden’,” (Confederate Philatelist, 1973) was typical of his research - combining social history with postal history. I was editor of the CP at that time.