Apr 23, 2009 - Sale 2177

Sale 2177 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SEWARD TO MRS. LINCOLN CONVEYING CONDOLENCES (LINCOLN ASSASSINATION.) SEWARD, WILLIAM HENRY. Letterpress copy of an Autograph Letter Signed, "William H. Seward," to Mrs. [Mary Todd] Lincoln, sending "papers [not present] addressed to you expressive of the sentiments of sympathy and condolence of corporate bodies, associations, and individuals in Great Britain, inspired by the death of your late illustrious husband the President of the United States . . . ." 2 1/2 pages, 4to, tissue paper, three separate sheets, bound together at top left with glue; faint offsetting on terminal page, folds. Np, 10 July [186]5
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". . . In that season of your irreparable bereavement, I trust that you may derive some consolation from the manifestation of grief and the universal and unqualified tribute to the virtues and the greatness of the beloved departed which have burst spontaneously from the great heart of humanity, wherever the character of the man and the grand and imperishable cause in which he fell are understood. History chronicles no human career the closing of which has elicited from mankind demonstrations of such profound emotions or so exalted in motive."
The original of this letter is not among the Lincoln Papers and no references to it could be found.