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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF NORMAN S. BOAS
LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Signature (“A Lincoln Springfield Ills-”) as United States Representative, Washington, 22 February 1849.
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LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Signature (“A Lincoln Springfield Ills-”) as United States Representative, Washington, 22 February 1849.
Accomplished on a 190 x 155mm leaf within a disbound autograph album, inscribed on front pastedown “Robt. D Nelson’s Peeks Kill N.Y. Washington D. C. Feb. 22d 1849”
A rare Lincoln signature from his single term in the United States House of Representatives, together with nearly 200 members of the 30th United States Congress. Other notable signatures include those of future Confederate Vice President Alexander STEPHENS (1812-1883), on verso of leaf bearing Lincoln’s, Horace GREELEY (1811-1872), Thaddeus STEVENS (1792-1868), Humphrey MARSHALL (1812-1872), David WILMOT (1814-1868), and Robert TOOMBS (1810-1885).
Lincoln served as a Whig representative for a single term. His firm stance against the Mexican War did not win him many friends in his home district and he was not nominated to run in the subsequent election. [With:] Journal of the House of Representatives of the eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their called session, begun and held at Springfield, December 9, 1839. Springfield: Wm. Walters, Pubic Printer, 1839. 340 pp + index, octavo, in contemporary boards (boards chipped and rubbed, pages dampstained).
Accomplished on a 190 x 155mm leaf within a disbound autograph album, inscribed on front pastedown “Robt. D Nelson’s Peeks Kill N.Y. Washington D. C. Feb. 22d 1849”
A rare Lincoln signature from his single term in the United States House of Representatives, together with nearly 200 members of the 30th United States Congress. Other notable signatures include those of future Confederate Vice President Alexander STEPHENS (1812-1883), on verso of leaf bearing Lincoln’s, Horace GREELEY (1811-1872), Thaddeus STEVENS (1792-1868), Humphrey MARSHALL (1812-1872), David WILMOT (1814-1868), and Robert TOOMBS (1810-1885).
Lincoln served as a Whig representative for a single term. His firm stance against the Mexican War did not win him many friends in his home district and he was not nominated to run in the subsequent election. [With:] Journal of the House of Representatives of the eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their called session, begun and held at Springfield, December 9, 1839. Springfield: Wm. Walters, Pubic Printer, 1839. 340 pp + index, octavo, in contemporary boards (boards chipped and rubbed, pages dampstained).