Scope and Contents 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Invested their money in two $500 and one $100 Confederate bonds; he will explain why when he writes his mother; is urging Clay's? claims at the Navy? Department vigorously; inquires how Rosa a Hope relative staying with Annie and his mother is getting along; a force is leaving for the coast of North Carolina, and in his despair of not being able to go, he cries, then writes "how strange an animal is man!"; love to the family. Bears postscript from James Barron Hope, no place, to Annie B. (Whiting) Hope, Warrenton, North Carolina. Saw the pretty wives of some departing officers, and these women didn't cry; he can't understand it. Bears postscript from James Barron Hope, no place, to Annie B. (Whiting) Hope, Warrenton, North Carolina. Received letter from Honorable Robert Tyler assuring him of his services in Clay's behalf; "he writes very warmly."