Just another note on my previous post. Found this interesting article, here’s a quote:
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected South Carolina’s request to argue about ownership of 400 Civil War letters, clearing the way for those letters to be auctioned later this year.
Thomas Willcox of Seabrook Island has been trying to sell the letters, valued at $2.4 million, for three years.
But S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster sued to block the sale, saying that the letters, now being held in a Charleston bank, are state property.
Once again, it’s the property of the people of this country, not for an individual to sell. They belong in an archive where anyone can access them. This auction will be a travesty if these letters end up in the hands of dozens of collectors from all over the Country.
