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LINCOLN, Abraham President. Autograph document signed ("A. Lincoln") 18 August 1852. 1 page, oblong, 58 x 195 mm (26 x 7.5/8 in), pale blue paper slightly discolored, Bold signature, autograph on verso "Wallace Todds Estate."
LINCOLN AND THE ESTATE OF MARY'S FATHER
A document referring to the disposition of the estate of Mary Todd Lincoln's father, Robert S. Todd of Lexington, Kentucky, who had perished in a cholera epidemic in July 1849. When Todd's will was challenged by his son George, Lincoln "was chosen to protect the interest of his wife and here three sisters...in October [1849] Lincoln journeyed to Lexington for the litigation involving the estate" (Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters, p.40). The document refers to George Kinkead, attorney for Lincoln and Ninian Edwards in the Circuit Court at Lexington. Lincoln writes: "Received of George B. Kinkead by N[inian] W Edwards two hundred and eighty four dollars .43/100 from the estate of R.S. Todd subject to be released, or so much thereof as may hereafter be legally required."
Ninian Wirt Edwards (1809-1889) had married Elizabeth P. Todd, Mary Todd's older sister and moved to Springfield in 1835; it was at social gatherings in the Edwards home in 1839 that Mary and Lincoln first met, and although the Edwards family opposed their engagement, they were married in the Edwards home on 4 November 1842.
LINCOLN AND THE ESTATE OF MARY'S FATHER
A document referring to the disposition of the estate of Mary Todd Lincoln's father, Robert S. Todd of Lexington, Kentucky, who had perished in a cholera epidemic in July 1849. When Todd's will was challenged by his son George, Lincoln "was chosen to protect the interest of his wife and here three sisters...in October [1849] Lincoln journeyed to Lexington for the litigation involving the estate" (Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters, p.40). The document refers to George Kinkead, attorney for Lincoln and Ninian Edwards in the Circuit Court at Lexington. Lincoln writes: "Received of George B. Kinkead by N[inian] W Edwards two hundred and eighty four dollars .43/100 from the estate of R.S. Todd subject to be released, or so much thereof as may hereafter be legally required."
Ninian Wirt Edwards (1809-1889) had married Elizabeth P. Todd, Mary Todd's older sister and moved to Springfield in 1835; it was at social gatherings in the Edwards home in 1839 that Mary and Lincoln first met, and although the Edwards family opposed their engagement, they were married in the Edwards home on 4 November 1842.