Dear Sir, When we
parted I hoped by this date to have been able to leave home free from the
inconvenience and disagreeable exposure of hopping on crutches.1 My
foot has not improved much and though just now its appearance is flattering I
have been so often disappointed that I await further evidence.
I thank you for the
interest you take in the appointment of U. S. Senator and am really obliged to
Gov. Brown for feelings which by others I had been led to believe he did not
entertain towards me.
With the hope that I
will soon have the pleasure of seeing you I am as ever very sincerely your
friend
* Chancellor
Mississippi Superior Court of Chancery from 1846 to 1853.
1 Col. Jefferson Davis and his regiment of
Mississippi Riflemen saved the army of General Taylor from defeat at the battle
of Buena Vista. He was painfully wounded in the foot during the engagement; and
after returning to his plantation at "Brierfield" in June 1847 he was
disabled for some time. It was during this period that he was appointed United
States Senator from Mississippi by Governor Brown.
SOURCE: Dunbar
Rowland, Editor, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers
and Speeches, Volume 1, p. 88
