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24HourForums.com > The Top 10 Supported Forums > Aethelred's History Chamber > Lincoln letter sells for 3.4 million |
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member  ~~sea hag~~:)
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A rare Lincoln manuscript sold for $3.4 million on Thursday at Sotheby's auction house. The 1864 letter in which Abraham Lincoln replies to the abolitionist pleas of 195 young boys and girls was bought by a private American collector over the phone. President Lincoln's reply to the "Little People's Petition" was among dozens of items up for auction Thursday.  The sale of the letter, from the Dr. Robert Small Trust, set a record for a Lincoln manuscript, a presidential manuscript and any American manuscript ever auctioned, Sotheby's spokeswoman Susan Ollinick said. The "Little People's Petition" had asked Lincoln "to free all the little slave children of this country." Lincoln wrote, "Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it." Although Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had declared freedom for all slaves held in areas "in rebellion" against the United States as of January 1, 1863, full abolition of slavery was not accomplished until adoption of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution late in 1865. The letter had been expected to sell for $3 million to $5 million. About 20 Lincoln documents were among the 111 items for sale from the Small Trust. Also included were other documents from U.S. presidents, including pages from George Washington's diary and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson and John Adams; a rare document signed by both Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; about 10 documents from Robert E. Lee; and documents from John Brown, Samuel Clemens, Orville Wright and others
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Nice story, I love historical documents like that, especially over something as emotional as slavery.
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Brian Grand Poobah of Moderation 
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The document itself is interesting. (Lincoln always favored emancipation, but he didn't believe he had the constitutional authority to abolish slavery.) What I find almost as interesting is that pages from Washington's diary weren't more valued. Lincoln's letter seems less historic than Washington's diary. (It would be interesting to compare the relative historical value of Washington's diary vs. Lincoln's.)
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librtyhead Original500© Member 
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Washington wrote more than Lincoln did. There is more Washington artifacts than there are Lincoln.
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Marie5656 Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Just hanging out
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I think stuff like this is quite interesting. In case some missed it, Here is a link to a message I posted a while back about some of Lincoln's correspondence which was on display at the University of Rochester. If you go to browse letters, you can just click on the last initial of either the writer or recipient. Then you can see some of the documents. I am not sure if the display is still there, but the link still works.
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