Manuscripts
Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois, letter to Samuel Haycraft, Elizabethtown, Kentucky
- Description
Autograph letter. The date, location, addressee, salutation, and signature are cut off and filled in on second sheet by a contemporary hand (Hannibal Hamlin). Includes stamped, addressed envelope. (1 page)
- Date
- 1860 August 23
- Call number
- HM 25155
- Provenance
- Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Lambert Lincolniana collection, January and April 1914.
- Purchased from Judd Stewart, 1922.
- Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Lambert Civil War collection, March 1914.
- Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Mark P. Robinson collection, February-March 1918.
- Purchased from William K. Bixby, 1918.
- Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Hale-Hunter sale, January 1917.
