Lot 251
  • 251

Lincoln, Abraham

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Letter signed ("A. Lincoln") as sixteenth President
  • paper, ink
1 page (8 x 5 in.; 202 x 127 mm) on a bifolium of Executive Mansion letterhead, text in a secretarial hand, Washington, 26 July 1862, to Z. Morse of Louisville, Kentucky.

Provenance

Charles Hamilton Galleries, 16 September 1982, lot 93

Condition

1 page (8 x 5 in.; 202 x 127 mm) on a bifolium of Executive Mansion letterhead, text in a secretarial hand, Washington, 26 July 1862, to Z. Morse of Louisville, Kentucky.
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Catalogue Note

Lincoln honors an autograph request from a border state with a bold, dark signature: "Herewith I send you my autograph which you desire."