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Robert Todd Lincoln
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President Abraham Lincoln’s oldest son responds to an autograph request
Robert Todd Lincoln, 1843–1926. Oldest son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln; United States Secretary of War, 1881–1885; American Ambassador to Great Britain, 1889–1893. Bold signature, Robert T. Lincoln, in the margin of a letter requesting his autograph [ca. January 1895].
This piece comes from a large collection of letters, notes, and signatures assembled by a professor of penmanship at the State Normal School at Emporia, Kansas, now Emporia State University, who had his students write to prominent men and women to request a handwritten letter expressing a reminiscence, a favorite sentiment, or a word of advice. Lincoln responds by signing the margin of a letter containing Gertrude Limbocker’s request for “some sentiment with your signature” for “an album of autographs of the noted men of the world.”
This is a nice 2¼” signature of Lincoln in black fountain pen. The ink has bled on some of the letters in his first name. The letter on which Lincoln has signed has some wrinkling at the edges, including the edge with the signature. There are also some damp staining along the bottom and mounting traces on the back, neither of which affects the signature, from prior mounting in the album. Overall the piece is in very good to fine condition, and the signature is fine. The letter could be matted out if the signature were framed with a portrait of Lincoln.
Unframed.
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