The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 8, February 22, 2004, Article 6

CONFEDERATE WALLPAPER PRINTING REFERENCE?

  Larry Mitchell sent the following, which he forwarded from
  the Society for Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP):

  "I am wondering if anyone on the list knows of any good,
  reliable scholarship that documents the use of wallpaper as
  paper for printing in the Confederacy during the Civil War.
  One runs across anecdotal statements about the practice in
  just about every account of Civil War publishing, so I'm not
  looking for citations to general scholarship on Confederate
  publishing.  I'm looking for (or perhaps just hopelessly hoping
  for) scholarship by someone who has actually examined and
  cataloged such instances.  A Google search that got many hits
  of digitized images of such documents printed on wallpaper
  (including currency, book covers, and newspapers) has
  convinced me that the stories are not entirely apocryphal,
  but I'm still hoping for something a little more authoritative.

  Thanks! Please reply off list (mjhomestead at ou.edu).
  Melissa J. Homestead
  Assistant Professor of English
  University of Oklahoma"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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