Auction Date:2010 Nov 10 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Oversized free-franked envelope portion, measuring as one 14.5 x 7 sheet, addressed in another hand, “[S]tanton Hospital, Washington, D. C.,” franked in the upper right, as president, “A. Lincoln,” and postmarked Washington, D.C., November 23, 1864. Envelope is also notated along the bottom by Mary Lincoln, “[Sen]t by the author to be presented by Mrs. A. Lincoln.” Portion of the reverse of envelope bears a complete red wax presidential seal. In good condition, with professional restoration to left edge, including a single letter of address and three letters of Mrs. Lincoln’s note, several tears, heavy creasing, with several creases lightly affecting both signatures, scattered toning and moderate soiling, and several vertical folds. All writing is quite light, but overall readable.
During their tenure at the White House, the Lincolns often visited hospitals around Washington, where Mary Todd Lincoln—a volunteer nurse—was often found feeding, cleaning, and comforting the ill and wounded. She also gave flowers and fruit to the wounded troops and helped with their correspondence. Among the sites the president and first lady visited was the aforementioned facility, named in honor of Lincoln’s secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton, which operated from December 1862 to October 1865. The same day he dispatched this correspondence, Lincoln met with the hospital’s namesake, as well as General Ulysses S. Grant and other staff members, to discuss the progress of the Civil War. Dual-signed items of President Lincoln and the First Lady are as desirable as they are scarce.
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