126. PEE PEE FOR THE CONFEDERACY Great content A.Ms, 3pp. 8vo., [n.p.], June 1888, a manuscript copy of a great Union broadside that was sold here several auctions ago that parodied the order of John Haroldson, agent for the Nitre & Gunpowder Manufacturing Company which read: "The Ladies of Selma are respectfully requested to preserve all their Chamber Lye, collected about their premises, for the purpose of making Nitre. Wagons, with barrels will be sent round for it by the subscriber." The manuscript then notes that the advertisement became the subject of "A political commentary...privately circulated soon after." The writer then copies four stanzas of the satirical poem that resulted. In part: "John Haroldson John Haroldson / You are a funny creature / You've given to this cruel war / A new and startling feature; / You'd have us think while every man / I born to be a fighter, / The ladies too can aid the cause / By saving ---- (lye) for niter...The things so very odd you know, / Explosive-like and cranky, / For when a lady lifts her shift / She shoos a bloody Yankee..." More fine content. Together with a fourth 8vo. sheet attesting to the fact that the ad did indeed appear in the Selma paper, according to Henry Watterson of the Louisville Couriers Journal. Watterson also informed him that the author was a "Bohemian by the name of McNight...who wrote under the nom de plume, 'Ace of Hearts'". Very good. $400-600