Two handwritten letters from Varina Davis: a one-page ALS signed "Varina Davis," and a partial ALS signed "V. Davis," four pages on two adjoining sheets, both undated and directed to West Point Chaplain and Professor John W. French. The ALS, in part: "If it were possible to make your agency clearer in bringing me nearer to God, you will be so remembered, and it is great happiness to me to know that the person I most revere on earth has given to me these precious volumes to insure our continued friendship Heaven." The partial ALS, reads: "The Kansas and Utah question seems to fill everybody's mind, excepting those who desire to serve their country in the new Regiment and those who assert they have served an ungrateful country on the high seas. I see no one who does not seem to feel anxious about our territorial affairs—and whenever the conversations arise, Mr. Davis takes pains to assure the speaker be he who he may, that the Dreadful Doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty had shaded and protected the ignorant." In overall very good to fine condition, with some scattered creasing.Format: Letters