Lot 938
  • 938

(Lincoln, Abraham, sixteenth President)

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • small archive
A group of manuscripts and printed ephemera relating to the sixteenth president. Various sizes and conditions. Individually housed in half morocco folding-cases. Comprising:

Catalogue Note

John T. Stuart, autograph letter signed ("Stuart & Lincoln"), 1 page, Springfield, 19 December 1838, to L. M. Ross, regarding payment for a legal case. — William H. Herndon, autograph letter signed ("W. H. Herndon"), 4 pages, Springfield, 13 February 1890, to Mrs. Leonard Swett, reminiscing with the recently widowed Mrs. Swett about riding the law circuit with her husband. — Gideon Welles, autograph manuscript, 3 pages, no place or date, describing Lincoln's "happy way of illustrating questions, and sometimes disposing of a subject by an anecdote which, better than an elaborate argument, expressed his opinion." — Robert Todd Lincoln, typed letter signed ("Robert T. Lincoln"), 1 1/2 pages, Chicago, 23 February 1909, to Charles W. McLellan, enclosing a signed carte-de-visite size photograph of himself, which still accompanies the letter. — David D. Porter, manuscript letter signed ("David D. Porter"), 4 pages, Washington, 20 April 1882, to O. H. Oldroyd, providing his "impressions of the late President Lincoln and my admiration of the value of his services" for the compilation Words of Lincoln Including Several Hundred Opinions of his Life and character by eminent Persons of this and other Lands. — A printed handbill issued by the Treasury Department, 17 April 1865, ordering that "in honor to the memory of our late illustrious Chief Magistrate, all officers and others subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury, wear crape upon the left arm for the period of six months." — "Official Arrangements at Washington for the funeral solemnities of the late Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, who died at the Seat of Government, on Saturday, the 15th day of April, 1865." Washington: War Department, 17 April 1865. Text printed within black borders.