Partly printed document completed in manuscript. Signed check by Jefferson Davis. Memphis, Tennessee, 3 August 1870. Approx. 7 3/4 x 2 1/2 in., matted and framed to 17 1/4 x 23 in. With red lithograph "Savings Bank of Memphis" logo and design on check. With red two-cent stamp adhered on check. With lithograph of Davis included in frame. 

This check signed by Jefferson Davis was made out for $500 on 3 August 1870. At the time of this check's signing, Davis was just elected as the president of the Carolina Life Insurance Company in Memphis, Tennessee, and was working on moving his home office to Baltimore. He wrote this check just a few days before he made a business trip to Baltimore, then sailed to England from New York to reunite with his family before moving them back to the States. 

After an unsuccessful term as the Confederate States of America's president, two years of imprisonment, and facing federal charges that were eventually dropped, Davis spent the 1870s constantly looking for ways to make money that he felt did not diminish his status. He eventually lived with author Sarah Dorsey to work on his books, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government and A Short History of the Confederate States of America. Davis would pass away on 6 December 1889 after battling acute bronchitis complicated by malaria. 

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