May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Brief Autograph Letter, unsigned, to Messrs Hazard & Beardsley: "Yours of the 12th inclosing papers to commence an Ejectment suit--Guernsey vs Bagley--was duly received. This morning I pled the papers in court, and took the usual twenty day note." 1/2 page, 4to; lacking signature and closing having been clipped out from middle right, short closed separations at folds, docketing and minor soiling verso. With fragments of the original envelope, addressed in an unknown hand. Springfield, 16 January 1860