Marilyn:

Have you seen the actual handwritten letters?  Do you know whether 
the handwriting was sitting on a straight line and even?  It may be a 
capital D that just superficially resembles a capital P because it is 
not sitting on a straight line but floating above the line.

--Ida Skarson McCormick, [log in to unmask], Seattle


At 09:09 AM 2/7/2009, marilyn canfield <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>We have an ancestor who served in the Civil War.. his name was 
>Richard Daniel Alley..but some of his letters written back to Va 
>from Tn shows a signature Daniel P..  His descendants say he used 
>Richard on in a formal situation (his Civil War record had Richard 
>Daniel) .   Did the capitol P have another meaning?

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