Lot 756
LOUISIANA/MARITIME HISTORY A Significant Collection of Ephemera relating to the life and career of Thomas Paul Leathers (1816-1896), owner and captain of eight different Steamboat Natchez. Included is Leather' certificate from the Audubon Driving Club Association dated April 7th, 1887, stock certificate for the Louisiana Jockey Club dated November 18th, 1871, membership receipt from New Louisiana Jockey Club dated October 17th, 1890, steamboat pilot's license, two cards advertising the "Running Time of Steamer Natchez", typewritten note about an article in Marine Journal in 1886, two vintage photographs of Captain Leathers' home photographed by Joseph Schnetzer, New Orleans, and a receipt and letter from the lawyer Albert M. Lea of Vicksburg, Mississippi. (12 pcs.) E1000/1500 Note: Although encouraged by his father to move north, Leathers came to the lower Mississippi as a young man. "I had found a land," Capt. Leathers stated in later years, "where was reared a race of gentlemen, where a man's word was his bond I received the courtesies that might have been extended a prince, and such were the courtesies always extended a gentleman regardless of the condition of his purse... I told my father it would be insane, in the very nature of conditions, to go north, when such a people dwelt in the South." Ref. Tales of the Mississippi, p. 107
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