Lot 89
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LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph note signed ("A. Lincoln") as President to an unidentified correspondent [Secretary of War Simon Cameron], n.p. [Washington, D.C.], 31 December 1861. 1 page, 8vo, folds neatly reinforced from verso, otherwise fine. Boldly penned.

Price realised USD 9,400
Estimate
USD 3,500 – USD 5,000
Closed: 19 May 2000
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LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph note signed ("A. Lincoln") as President to an unidentified correspondent [Secretary of War Simon Cameron], n.p. [Washington, D.C.], 31 December 1861. 1 page, 8vo, folds neatly reinforced from verso, otherwise fine. Boldly penned.

Price realised USD 9,400
Closed: 19 May 2000
Price realised USD 9,400
Closed: 19 May 2000
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LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph note signed ("A. Lincoln") as President to an unidentified correspondent [Secretary of War Simon Cameron], n.p. [Washington, D.C.], 31 December 1861. 1 page, 8vo, folds neatly reinforced from verso, otherwise fine. Boldly penned.

THE PRESIDENT INTERVENES TO ENSURE THAT AN ARMS SUPPLIER IS FAIRLY PAID BY THE GOVERNMENT. In the early months of the war, Lincoln instructs his first Secretary of War: "The foregoing [not present] is the copy of a letter I wrote on the day of its date and now I wish the officers of the government to settle with and pay Mr. Penfield according to the terms of the letter and his performance of the conditions stated." The present note transmitted to Cameron a transcript of Lincoln's letter of 15 Augsut 1861 to Penfield, a supplier of arms to the Union. In it, Lincoln authorized Penfield, already under contract to the Federal government, to furnish "ordnance and cavalry arms," to supply two battery of cannon and cavalry arms to the state of Illinois, providing that they were "of the same quality" and equal cost. He also promised him that the new request would not conflict with his current contract with the government (Collected Works, 2nd Supplement, pp.39-40). Apparently, Penfield was concerned about being paid by the government for ordnance supplied, since Illinois governor Yates had not placed the order through proper channels (see later correspondence between Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton, in Collected Works, ed. Basler, 5:172).

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Lot 90

LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") TO MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN (1826-1885), Washington, D.C., 21 May 1862. 1 page, 4to (210 x 195 mm.), "Washington City, D.C." stationery, blank top and bottom of the sheet slightly trimmed, tiny repairs to left hand edge, vertical fold at right carefully reinforced from verso, tipped to a larger sheet within ink-ruled borders, otherwise in good condition.

EstimateUSD 150,000 – USD 200,000
Price realisedUSD 468,000
Lot 91

LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") as President to "Hon. Sec. of War" [Edwin M. Stanton], Washington D.C., 15 July 1862. 1 full page, 8vo, integral blank, on Executive Mansion stationery. Excellent condition. [With:] Original envelope addressed by Lincoln to "Hon. Sec. of War," and with autograph note signed with initials: "Please see this young man a moment A.L."

EstimateUSD 70,000 – USD 100,000
Price realisedUSD 358,000
Lot 92

[LINCOLN, Abraham]. Document signed ("A.Lincoln") as President, a testimonial for Dr. Zacharie, his chiropodist, countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward, the heading "Executive Mansion Washington D.C.," and date "Sep. 23 1862" in Lincoln's hand. 1 page, 4to (192 x 145 mm.), blank margins of the sheet finger-soiled, neatly mounted at front of an album containing other testimonials to Zacharie's accomplishments, 1846-1872 (see partial contents below), bound in black roan leather, joints repaired, in original slipcase. [With:] Cabinet photograph of Dr. Zacharie, by "Turner & Killick, Art Photographers," of Islington, [England], n.d. [1875 or later?]. A fine image of the physician, seated, in suit and tie. See Charles M. Segel, "Isachar Zacharie: Lincoln's Chiropodist," Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, vol. 43, no.2 (New York, 1953), pp.72-126; Bertram W. Korn, American Jewry and the Civil War, 1951, 194-202.

EstimateUSD 80,000 – USD 120,000
Price realisedUSD 94,000
Lot 93

LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph endorsement signed ("A Lincoln") as President, [Washington, D.C.], 30 September 1862, autograph endorsement signed by Secretary of State William E. Seward. Three lines plus date and signature on verso of an ALS, 2pp., 4to, decorative Congressional stationery, from Congressman A.S. Divan of New York, partial separation along one fold, otherwise in good condition, IN A FINE GILTWOOD FRAME: neatly double-matted with portrait and in a large gilt-wood frame. TEN DAYS AFTER ANTIETAM. Divan urges the Commander-in-Chief, in light of a report of General Gordon, to appoint Col. Van Valkenburg a Brig. General; he assures Lincoln he would not want "to interfere with what I think best for our own distracted country." Lincoln writes: "Respectfully submitted to Genl. [Henry Wager] Halleck." Van Valkenburg evidently served under Gordon at Antietam (17-18 September), and Seward's note concurring with the promotion, alludes to the battle of Antietam.

EstimateUSD 3,000 – USD 4,000
Price realisedUSD 4,113
Lot 94

LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln") as President to "Hon. Secy of War" [Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869)], n.p. [Washington D.C.], 22 December 1862. 5 lines, date and signature on an oblong card, 51 x 84mm., addressed by Lincoln on verso.

EstimateUSD 3,000 – USD 5,000
Price realisedUSD 4,113
Lot 95

LINCOLN, Abraham. Signature ("A Lincoln") as President, and place ("Washington") inscribed at the top of a page containing signatures and addresses of subscribers to National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans...from...paintings by Alonzo Chappel. With...biographical...narratives by Evert A. Duyckinck. New York, 1862. Folio, 261 x 200mm. bound in brown leather over boards, richly embossed, gilt-titled "National Portrait Gallery" on upper cover. (Covers detached, about 16 pages with tears, some repaired, many leaves with marginal soiling from handling, other defects.)

EstimateUSD 5,000 – USD 7,000
Price realisedUSD 4,935
Lot 96

LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") as President to Secretary of War [Edwin M. Stanton], Washington D.C., 1 September 1864. 1 page, 8vo, "Executive Mansion" stationery, boldly scrawled endorsement by Stanton in blank area below Lincoln's signature. Fine.

EstimateUSD 12,000 – USD 18,000
Price realisedUSD 16,450
Lot 97

[LINCOLN, Abraham]. GARDNER, Alexander, Photographer. President Abraham Lincoln with his son, Tad. Imperial size albumen photograph, taken in Gardner's Gallery, Washington, D.C., 5 February 1865. 354 x 255 mm., two tiny scratches to right hand portion (the chair back), evenly age-darkened, otherwise fine. Ostendorf, Lincoln's Photographs, 0-114. Katz, Witness to an Era. The Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner, pp.119, 127.

EstimateUSD 5,000 – USD 7,000
Price realisedUSD 18,800
Lot 98

LINCOLN, Abraham. Engraved document signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, countersigned by ad interim Secretary of the Treasury George Harrington; Washington, D.C., 17 March 1865. 1 page, large oblong (approximately 325 x 415 mm.), matted and custom framed with portrait and descriptive plaque. Bold heading at top: "Abraham Lincoln President of the United States," with emblem of an eagle perched on a rock, in good condition. The day before being inaugurated for his second term, the President appoints David N. Reid "Surveyor of the Customs of the Port of Madison in the State of Indiana."

EstimateUSD 4,000 – USD 6,000
Price realisedUSD 4,935
Lot 99

LIVINGSTON, Robert R. (1746-1813). Letter signed ("Robt.Livingston") as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, TO MAJOR GENERAL [NATHANAEL] GREENE, Philadelphia, 12 March 1783. 2 pages, folio, integral blank (partial separation at central fold). Greene's docket: "Peace not yet certain."

EstimateUSD 8,000 – USD 12,000
Price realisedUSD 9,400
Lot 101

MARION, Frances (c.1732-1795), "The Swamp Fox," Partisan leader, Revolutionary War. Autograph letter signed ("Frans Marion," with flourish), to an unidentified correspondent (probably Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Greene), Ferguson Swamp, 17 May 1781. 1 full page, 4to, neatly inlaid to a larger sheet, docketed on verso. Boldly signed.

EstimateUSD 7,000 – USD 10,000
Price realisedUSD 12,925
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