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LINCOLN, Abraham, Cut signature affixed to top edge of autograph letter from Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), 25 April 1888 to Edwin W. Shrim, Esq., 2 pages, 4to.
Lincoln's son Robert responds to one of many requests for his father's signature: "If it were in my power I would be glad to comply with your request to send to the Abraham Lincoln Library Club of Woodlawn, an autographic signed paper of my father but I have nothing of the kind except some cancelled bank cheques from one of which I have cut his signature & enclose it." A Chicago corporate lawyer for most of his career, Lincoln served as Secretary of War in the Garfield-Arthur administration and U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1889-1892) under Harrison (he also had the macabre distinction of witnessing both the Garfield and McKinley assassinations). He superintended his father's papers, opening them to Nicolay and Hay for their biography, and bequeathing them to the Library of Congress in 1919.
Lincoln's son Robert responds to one of many requests for his father's signature: "If it were in my power I would be glad to comply with your request to send to the Abraham Lincoln Library Club of Woodlawn, an autographic signed paper of my father but I have nothing of the kind except some cancelled bank cheques from one of which I have cut his signature & enclose it." A Chicago corporate lawyer for most of his career, Lincoln served as Secretary of War in the Garfield-Arthur administration and U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1889-1892) under Harrison (he also had the macabre distinction of witnessing both the Garfield and McKinley assassinations). He superintended his father's papers, opening them to Nicolay and Hay for their biography, and bequeathing them to the Library of Congress in 1919.