Additional items accompanying the personal archive of Major Richard Kidder Meade, Jr., CSA, (Brunk Auctions, sale of 16 July 2011, lot 527).
Textiles:
- Hand-sewn brown satin weave silk drawstring bag lined with maroon silk, embroidered with the first national flag of the Confederacy (“Stars and Bars”, 13 stars) and the second national flag of the Confederacy (“the Stainless Banner”) and the motto Pro Aris et Focis – literally “for our altars and our hearths” (12″ by 8.75″, very good condition).
- Hand-sewn silk textile representing the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia’s infantry battle flag (12.5″ by 13″, some deterioration of silk borders at edges, minor substance spatter on red ground, otherwise in fair to good condition).
- Hand-sewn linen table cover with self-fringe, embroidered signatures of 12 individuals (very good with some staining).
Books:
- Georgia Society, Colonial Dames of America, 1931 directory.
- Hogarth, The Works of William Hogarth, vol. 1 (London: 1812), hardcover.
- Holy Bible (New York: American Bible Society, 1867), copy presented to James Burke, Dec. 18, 1868.
- John Howard, The Illustrated Scripture History for the Young, 2 vols. (New York: Virtue and Yorston, n.d.), copies belonging to Mary Meade Platt, hardcover.
- Eliza J. Lines, Marks-Platt Ancestry (Sound Beach, CT: 1902), 2 copies: one in a suede leather cover, one with no covers.
- Bishop Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1872) hardcover.
- Henry, J. Peet, ed., Chaumiere Papers Containing Matters of Interest to the Descendants of David Meade (Chicago: Horace O’Donoghue, 1883), hardcover.
- Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1856), copy belonging to W. H. Platt.
- Horace G. Platt, John Marshall and Other Addresses (San Francisco, Argonaut, n.d.), hardcover.
- W. H. Platt, Judith Carson; or which Was the Heiress? (Rochester, NY: E. R. Andrews, 1887), softcover.
- The Philosophy of the Supernatural (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1886), hardcover, 2 copies.
- Robert E. Lee, In Memoriam (Louisville: John P. Morton, 1870), hardcover.
Manuscripts: Two diaries of Mazy Platt, 1887 & 1888, together with letters, pressed flowers, miscellanea.
Ephemera:
- framed genealogy of the Latham Meade family;
- vellum “Supreme Court of the United States of America” to William H. Platt, February 10, 1846, with wax seal of the Supreme Court;
- watercolor of Bishop’s Palace in England;
- two leaves of gravestone rubbings: Hugh Richard Kidder Meade and Mary Martha Susan Meade;
- miscellaneous genealogical papers on the Meade family;
- letters to William W. Platt from the President of the College of William and Mary;
- poem commemorating the death of Richard Kidder Meade from a sister;
- document from the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia;
- documents from the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama;
- papers on Old Blandford Church in Petersburg, Virginia;
- carte-de-visite of the William Platt home in San Francisco;
- William Platt’s survivor’s pension from the Mexican-American War;
- newspaper articles on Richard Kidder Meade from the 19th and 20th centuries.
- two stereoscopic cards of church interior, Louisville, Ky.;
- carte-de-visite of Richard Kidder Meade with eight other officers of Fort Sumter, March 1862, with newspaper clipping from 1862.