[Rarebooks] FS: George Washington Cable ARCHIVE OF LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPTS

[Charles Agvent]

CABLE, George Washington. ARCHIVE OF LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPTS Relating to 
Cable's book KINCAID'S BATTERY. Northampton, MA, 1902 - 1903. Superb 
collection of material by this former Confederate soldier and important, 
neglected writer who paved the way for modern Southern writers such as 
Faulkner and Welty in dealing with the pervasive issue of race. Includes 
9 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) to Confederate officer Alexander 
Porter Morse; 1 AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to publisher Charles 
Scribner; 2 AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS SIGNED (AMSs) addressed to Morse's 
children; and 2 TYPED LETTERS, unsigned, from Morse to Cable; along with 
5 envelopes addressed in Cable's hand. The letters mostly concern 
Cable's work and his interest in Morse's experiences in the Civil War. 
The letter from Cable to Scribner is one of introduction for Morse. Some 
excerpts: "I have begun another cavalry story of New Orleans and 
Vicksburg, and I want to sit you down in my library and make you talk. 
Oh dear! how can I wait? And I must see that book of Howell Carter [A 
CAVALRYMAN'S REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR]." "I thank you for the 
little sketch and picture of General Pickett, which I return with this 
letter. Gettysburg would be quite too much out of focus for my story." 
"I am today expressing your invaluable diary back to you. It has given 
me many a good point and I wish I might see it again when I get deeper 
into the actual writing of my story -- the final writing, I mean.... I 
hope you will like 'Strong Hearts.'" "I have your letter of the 17 and 
am enjoying the manual of Artillery Tactics greatly. It delights me that 
I have chosen my hero from this so highly scientific arm of the 
services, an arm which has been so oddly overlooked by the 
story-tellers." "I am delighted with 'The Cannoneer' [Augustus Caesar 
Buell: THE CANNONEER: RECOLLECTIONS OF SERVICE IN THE ARMY OF THE 
POTOMAC]. It gives me points already though I have just received it and 
have not looked into it more than four pages deep.... I wish you could 
see how I have changed to opening of my story. I have it right this 
time, and this again I owe, in degree, to you -- to your patient and 
interested attention to my reading of the first draft." Included in this 
archive are the first two pages of that first draft which differ greatly 
from the published version, both written in a very small hand and 
INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Cable at the bottom of each page, both 
apparently to the son and daughter of Morse who are described by Morse 
in his letters to Cable as fiercely competing to read a copy of Cable's 
THE CAVALIER that was in the Morse home. KINCAID'S BATTERY, about a 
Confederate army artillery unit set in New Orleans, was not published 
until 1908. Some tears and wrinkles; two letters are laid down on 
cardboard. Very Good condition overall.

Alexander Porter Morse received notoriety during the Civil War as a 
prisoner of war on the "Maple Leaf," a civilian steamboat chartered by 
the Union Army to transport prisoners north. The Confederate prisoners 
overtook the crew of the vessel in June 1863 along with Union soldiers 
and officers on board. Seventy-one of the nearly 100 Confederate 
prisoners, including nineteen-year-old Lt. Morse, managed to escape off 
the steamboat, ultimately making it safely to Richmond. After the war, 
Morse relocated to Washington, DC to become a journalist and 
correspondent, eventually earning a PhD from Princeton University in 
1885. He was the author of several law books and represented Judge 
Howard Ferguson in the famous Plessy v. Ferguson case. (#020615) $5,000

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