Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 248

Price Realized: $ 260
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) Two Autograph Letters Signed by Lincoln's co-biographers: John Milton Hay * John George Nicolay. Hay: as Secretary of the Legation of the U.S. in Paris, to diplomat Anson Burlingame, sending a letter from the minister of foreign affairs [not present] regarding Mr. Bigelow's notice of Captain Noel's conduct during the typhoon of September 15. Nicolay: "Jno.G. Nicolay," to art director at The Century Magazine Alexander Wilson Drake, thanking him for sending an engraving of President Johnson. Together 3 pages, each 8vo, with integral blank; horizontal folds. Paris, 29 November 1866; Washington, 18 January 1890

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From the Collection of William Wheeler III.