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Second, if you do your novel about Davis and his wife be sure to include the estrangement between the two that dated from the mid-1860s and lasted until his death.

Perhaps you could provide a citation for this estrangement. You certainly couldn't tell that from their correspondence when he traveled on business over those years. See Jefferson Davis, Private Letters 1823-1889 by Hudson Strode. The letters are full of affection for each other and occasional comments about Varina's feeble health.

[Badeye]

Second, if you do your novel about Davis and his wife be sure to include the estrangement between the two that dated from the mid-1860s and lasted until his death.

Perhaps you could provide a citation for this estrangement. You certainly couldn’t tell that from their correspondence when he traveled on business over those years. See Jefferson Davis, Private Letters 1823-1889 by Hudson Strode. The letters are full of affection for each other and occasional comments about Varina’s feeble health.

Not to mention they are all interned at the Hollywood cemetary in Richmond.

Like you, I never once heard of any ‘estrangement’, quite the contrary actually.

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provide a citation for this estrangement.

The only thing I can think of that might be called an estangement was during 1877. Jeff Davis went to live in a cottage at Sarah Dorsey's (Varina's childhood friend) plantation Beauvoir, to right his memoirs of the Confederacy. Varina refused to move there. She claimed she would not share her husband with anyone, "in such a menage a trois arrangement". However some months later when he agreed to move to have her with him Varina relented and moved to Beauvoir with him. Perhaps N-S can be more specific.