![LINCOLN, Abraham. Printed check accomplished and signed ("A. Lincoln"), Springfield, [Illinois], 20 September 1860.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2004/NYR/2004_NYR_01450_0410_000(094817).jpg?w=1)
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LINCOLN, Abraham. Printed check accomplished and signed ("A. Lincoln"), Springfield, [Illinois], 20 September 1860.
An oblong, 2 7/8 x 7¾ in.), neat slit cancellation just catching signature (though without loss), faint marginal stains, otherwise in good condition.
CANDIDATE LINCOLN'S READING: A CHECK FOR A POPULAR AUTHOR'S WORKS. An attractive check printed in blue ink in several typefaces, the left-hand portion with curving foliate panel of "Great Western Job Office." Lincoln orders payment of $5.00 to "R.B. Horry, for B. Taylor's book." It is not possible to identify with certainty which of the author's many books he might have been ordering.
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) an American author, journalist, world traveller and lecturer, enjoyed considerable popularity in the mid-19th century. Employed by Horace Greeley on the New York Tribune, he published books recounting his travels in Egypt, California, India Japan (he accompanied commodore Perry's 1855 expedition), Sweden and the Middle East. In 1862 he was appointed secretary of the U.S. legation at St. Petersburg. Later he published The Ballad of Abraham Lincoln (Boston, 1870), for children.
An oblong, 2 7/8 x 7¾ in.), neat slit cancellation just catching signature (though without loss), faint marginal stains, otherwise in good condition.
CANDIDATE LINCOLN'S READING: A CHECK FOR A POPULAR AUTHOR'S WORKS. An attractive check printed in blue ink in several typefaces, the left-hand portion with curving foliate panel of "Great Western Job Office." Lincoln orders payment of $5.00 to "R.B. Horry, for B. Taylor's book." It is not possible to identify with certainty which of the author's many books he might have been ordering.
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) an American author, journalist, world traveller and lecturer, enjoyed considerable popularity in the mid-19th century. Employed by Horace Greeley on the New York Tribune, he published books recounting his travels in Egypt, California, India Japan (he accompanied commodore Perry's 1855 expedition), Sweden and the Middle East. In 1862 he was appointed secretary of the U.S. legation at St. Petersburg. Later he published The Ballad of Abraham Lincoln (Boston, 1870), for children.