LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President . Autograph letter signed ("A.Lincoln") as President, to SECRETARY OF WAR EDWIN M. STANTON, Washington, D.C., 29 August 1863. 1 page, 8vo, integral blank, Executive Mansion stationery, dust-soiled, a small stain crossing but not obscuring text, leaves cleanly separated . [ With :] A partly printed document signed by Adjutant General E. D. Townsend ("EDTownsend"), War Department, Washington, D.C., 20 April 1865. 1 page, oblong 24mo, printed on black-bordered heavy card, accomplished in manuscript, neatly mounted . Dr. Charles Brown and an assistant "...are invited to accompany the remains of the late President...from the City of Washington to Springfield, Illinois..." Rare. DR. BROWN, THE PHYSICIAN WHO EMBALMED LINCOLN A letter and a rare piece of Lincoln ephemera, both relating to the physician who embalmed both Willie Lincoln and the President. The letter states: "Dr. Brown, the Embalmer, who has so long gone with our Armies, says he is now prevented in consequence of the loss of a paper. I suppose he should be given another, unless there be some reason to the contrary unknown to me..." Dr. Charles D. Brown had prepared Willie Lincoln for burial in February 1862. Brown "...had embalmed Willie so perfectly that he did really seem to be only sleeping, and Lincoln could not bear to leave him alone in the cold tomb" (Kunhardt, Twenty Days , 1965, p. 137). After the President's assassination, Brown was chosen by Mary Todd Lincoln to embalm Lincoln and to accompany the body on its long journey back to Illinois. His responsibilities included preserving and preparing Lincoln prior to each of the public wakes, held in thirteen major cities including Washington, D.C., New York, Cleveland, Chicago and Springfield. Provenance : Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 November 1978, lot 492). (2)
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President . Autograph letter signed ("A.Lincoln") as President, to SECRETARY OF WAR EDWIN M. STANTON, Washington, D.C., 29 August 1863. 1 page, 8vo, integral blank, Executive Mansion stationery, dust-soiled, a small stain crossing but not obscuring text, leaves cleanly separated . [ With :] A partly printed document signed by Adjutant General E. D. Townsend ("EDTownsend"), War Department, Washington, D.C., 20 April 1865. 1 page, oblong 24mo, printed on black-bordered heavy card, accomplished in manuscript, neatly mounted . Dr. Charles Brown and an assistant "...are invited to accompany the remains of the late President...from the City of Washington to Springfield, Illinois..." Rare. DR. BROWN, THE PHYSICIAN WHO EMBALMED LINCOLN A letter and a rare piece of Lincoln ephemera, both relating to the physician who embalmed both Willie Lincoln and the President. The letter states: "Dr. Brown, the Embalmer, who has so long gone with our Armies, says he is now prevented in consequence of the loss of a paper. I suppose he should be given another, unless there be some reason to the contrary unknown to me..." Dr. Charles D. Brown had prepared Willie Lincoln for burial in February 1862. Brown "...had embalmed Willie so perfectly that he did really seem to be only sleeping, and Lincoln could not bear to leave him alone in the cold tomb" (Kunhardt, Twenty Days , 1965, p. 137). After the President's assassination, Brown was chosen by Mary Todd Lincoln to embalm Lincoln and to accompany the body on its long journey back to Illinois. His responsibilities included preserving and preparing Lincoln prior to each of the public wakes, held in thirteen major cities including Washington, D.C., New York, Cleveland, Chicago and Springfield. Provenance : Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 November 1978, lot 492). (2)
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