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Civil War General Dan Sickles ALS Lincoln Prayer

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Civil War General Dan Sickles ALS Lincoln Prayer
<B>Daniel Sickles Autograph Letter Signed,</B></I> "<I>D Sickles</B></I>", three pages, 4.5" x 6.75", New York, October 16, 1902 to General King concerning his declining health and other matters including a mention of "Lincoln's Prayer." He writes in part: "<I>I shall be very glad to meet with your friend, the clerique [sic], and later on, when I am rested, I will relate the incident of 'Lincoln's Prayer' - although not from a pulpit! I fear the devil would laugh to see such an old sinner as I am in a sacred place...</B></I>" Sickles notes to King that he was "<I>...writing this at five A.M. - having been up all night- tortured by pain - a fearful attack of Neuralgia, brought on by a debility and Exhaustion - the results of our dissipations at Gettysburg and Washington recently. I am really trying to rest - so as to be fit to Celebrate my birthday next Monday, - and to Continue the festivities until the End of the Month. When one gets well advanced in the Seventies one is Entitled to Eleven days for a birthday Jamboree, - a Continuous performance, like a Chinese play - with occasional adjournments and recesses for refreshments...</B></I>" One horizontal crease, mounting remnants on verso of last page, else fine condition. <I>From the Henry E. Luhrs Collection.</B></I>
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