Description: Josephine Allston Sherman Pulsford (1838-1910) Letter Collection. Entire Lot of 36 original insightful civilian letters written to Miss Josephine Sherman (until 1863) then Mrs. Josephine Pulsford (married name) of New York City. 34 were written 1861-1865. One postwar letter from 1867 and one ten page detailed letter from 1885, mailed by her husband from United Kingdom when her husband traveled there. Note: About 30 letters are easily legible. About 5 are faded, but legible under bright light. One letter is too faded to read. All but one have the original envelopes. I read through each one and placed a sticky note on each envelope identifying the topic and who the letter was from. A talented author could write a great historical sketch on Josephine. March 14, 1864 From Friend / Cousin Mary: “God help the poor soldiers. We have a gentleman friend, Capt. Chapman - who lost his leg at South Mountain, laid two days in the field and was then taken to Richmond. He is only twenty and now belongs to the Invalid Corp. It seems hard that some of our best young men should have to suffer all their lives - were it any other cause, it would indeed be hard to think it right it should be so - “ Note: About 4-5 letters reference the Civil War or friends in the war (sample above), but most of the topics are non-war related. Topics include: father's death, telegraph, love, marriage prospects, broken heart, life's beauty, happiness, pain, sickness, daily life, weather, gossip, pregnancy, babies, Lent, Brother's Baptism, preacher, religion, Church Meetings, Jamestown Church burning, photographs, advice, chit-chat, etc. etc. etc. Most letters are dated; the ones that are not are mostly deciphered by comparing other letters based on Josephine's street address, maiden name, the sender's postmark, or topic of the letter. Josephine Allston Sherman, born 1838 New Haven, Connecticut, moved to New York City in Spring, 1862. On 19 Nov 1863 she married English-born widower James Eustace Pulsford at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in New York City. Later, the family moved to a substantial Victorian house at 489 Scotland Avenue in South Orange New Jersey. She died July 17, 1910 and is buried at Rosedale Cemetery, Montclair, New Jersey.
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Location: Whittier, California
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