LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865), President . Three autograph letters signed ("A. Lincoln") to the "loyal ladies of Trenton", Governor Andrew G. Curtin, and William O. Snyder, all dated Washington, 25 July 1864. One page each, 190 x 118mm, on Executive Mansion stationery [ With :] envelope addressed to "W. O. Snider" (letters to Curtain and Snider each bear a small decal at top left corner). Lincoln offers thanks for two presentation canes on the same day: one made from the triumphal arch erected for Washington and the other from the Merrimack . A series of three letters written by a President eager to express appreciation for but simultaneously overwhelmed by the myriad gifts offered by supporters. Canes were an especially popular gift in this period, especially examples manufactured from wood recovered from famous ships, battlefields and buildings. One of those canes, presented by the Loyal Ladies of Trenton during the President's visit to the sanitary fair in Philadelphia on 16 June 1864, was fashioned from a triumphal arch erected for George Washington's passage to his 1789 inauguration. "At the Philadelphia Fair about the middle of last month a very pretty cane, with hallowed associations, was presented to me, on your behalf by a worthy Revered gentleman whose name I regret to say I can not now remember. Please accept my sincere thanks, which, in my duties, I have not found time to tender sooner." The “Reverend gentleman” in question was an elderly man who presented the cane to Lincoln at a banquet held in his honor. Hale’s selection was symbolic as he was three years old in December 1776, when Washington repulsed Cornwallis at Trenton ( The Press , Philadelphia, 17 June 1864, p.2). The same day President Lincoln offered his thanks to the Loyal Ladies of Trenton, he wrote to Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania requesting assistance in learning the name of the man who had sent him another cane earlier the same year. Lincoln asked Curtain to forward the last letter in this lot to "the gentleman who sent me a cane through your hands." As Lincoln notes in the letter to Curtin: "For my life I can not make out his name; and therefore I cut it from his letter and pasted it on," in the manuscript letter, the name of the addressee is unmistakably pasted at the left above the letter body. William O. Snider (or Snyder), the recipient of the letter sent via Governor Curtain, had sent along a cane he had described as “made from a fragment of wood taken from the hulk of the rebel iron clad Merrimack after she was bowing up and deserted by her traitor commander and crew. Captain mark Hewlings of Philadelphia commander of the steam tug Star obtained it and presented it to me.” (William O. Snider to Andrew G. Curtain, 6 April 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress). Lincoln offered his thanks to Snider for "the cane you did me the honor to present through Gov. Curtain”. In offering his thanks, Lincoln also asked if Snider could “pardon” him “for not having sooner found time to tender them." Provenance : Letters to Snider & Curtain: William Henry Lambert (his sale) Anderson Galleries, 16 January 1914, lot 505 – The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia – Mrs. Edward Bok – purchased from the Bok estate by a west coast dealer. Letter to The Loyal Ladies of Trenton: Mrs. Edward Bok – purchased from the Bok estate by a West Coast dealer.
LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865), President . Three autograph letters signed ("A. Lincoln") to the "loyal ladies of Trenton", Governor Andrew G. Curtin, and William O. Snyder, all dated Washington, 25 July 1864. One page each, 190 x 118mm, on Executive Mansion stationery [ With :] envelope addressed to "W. O. Snider" (letters to Curtain and Snider each bear a small decal at top left corner). Lincoln offers thanks for two presentation canes on the same day: one made from the triumphal arch erected for Washington and the other from the Merrimack . A series of three letters written by a President eager to express appreciation for but simultaneously overwhelmed by the myriad gifts offered by supporters. Canes were an especially popular gift in this period, especially examples manufactured from wood recovered from famous ships, battlefields and buildings. One of those canes, presented by the Loyal Ladies of Trenton during the President's visit to the sanitary fair in Philadelphia on 16 June 1864, was fashioned from a triumphal arch erected for George Washington's passage to his 1789 inauguration. "At the Philadelphia Fair about the middle of last month a very pretty cane, with hallowed associations, was presented to me, on your behalf by a worthy Revered gentleman whose name I regret to say I can not now remember. Please accept my sincere thanks, which, in my duties, I have not found time to tender sooner." The “Reverend gentleman” in question was an elderly man who presented the cane to Lincoln at a banquet held in his honor. Hale’s selection was symbolic as he was three years old in December 1776, when Washington repulsed Cornwallis at Trenton ( The Press , Philadelphia, 17 June 1864, p.2). The same day President Lincoln offered his thanks to the Loyal Ladies of Trenton, he wrote to Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania requesting assistance in learning the name of the man who had sent him another cane earlier the same year. Lincoln asked Curtain to forward the last letter in this lot to "the gentleman who sent me a cane through your hands." As Lincoln notes in the letter to Curtin: "For my life I can not make out his name; and therefore I cut it from his letter and pasted it on," in the manuscript letter, the name of the addressee is unmistakably pasted at the left above the letter body. William O. Snider (or Snyder), the recipient of the letter sent via Governor Curtain, had sent along a cane he had described as “made from a fragment of wood taken from the hulk of the rebel iron clad Merrimack after she was bowing up and deserted by her traitor commander and crew. Captain mark Hewlings of Philadelphia commander of the steam tug Star obtained it and presented it to me.” (William O. Snider to Andrew G. Curtain, 6 April 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress). Lincoln offered his thanks to Snider for "the cane you did me the honor to present through Gov. Curtain”. In offering his thanks, Lincoln also asked if Snider could “pardon” him “for not having sooner found time to tender them." Provenance : Letters to Snider & Curtain: William Henry Lambert (his sale) Anderson Galleries, 16 January 1914, lot 505 – The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia – Mrs. Edward Bok – purchased from the Bok estate by a west coast dealer. Letter to The Loyal Ladies of Trenton: Mrs. Edward Bok – purchased from the Bok estate by a West Coast dealer.
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