Lincoln, AbrahamSignature ("A. Lincoln") in an autograph album accomplished in 1863 by the sixteenth president and many other notables
8vo (195 x 132 mm). 96 leaves (2 excised). Original blind-stamped brown morocco, the front cover gilt with an emblematic vignette of quill, inkstand, and album, yellow endpapers, gilt edges, ticket of Washington bookseller Hudson Taylor; extremities worn, spine largely perished (some fragments preserved with the album), a little shaken.
In addition to Lincoln, this Civil War relic is signed by Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, Senator Charles Sumner, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other significant signatories are Rear Admiral A.H. Foote, Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (later chairman of the managers appointed to conduct impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson), Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax (later Grant’s vice president), New York governor Reuben E. Fenton, and senators James R. Doolittle, David Wilmot, and Lyman Trumbull. The album is further signed by a number of other political and military leaders, many from Pennsylvania.
According to an accompanying copy of an article from the 13 August 1902 issue of The Topeka Daily Capital, the album belonged to Theodore F. Wurts, who also solicited signatures and sentiments from his personal acquaintances. The autographs in the album extend from 1863 until 1895. Wurts (1844–1911) was born in Wilkes-Barre, and during the Civil War, he enlisted in "The Wurts Guard" that was part of the Thirteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania. He later joined the Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry. Wurts was also a member of the “Wide Awakes,” who supported Lincoln’s 1860 campaign.
The rather fanciful article in the Topeka newspaper describes Wurts accompanying his mother to a reception at the White House: "His mother, who knew Mr. Lincoln very well, took a novel plan to secure the President's autograph and photograph on one occasion, at a reception. Taking a pen, a small vial of ink and an album, she held them toward Mr. Lincoln as he greeted her. He took the pen and vial, and holding up one in each hand, said: 'Madam, you have made it very easy for me.'"
Lincoln, AbrahamSignature ("A. Lincoln") in an autograph album accomplished in 1863 by the sixteenth president and many other notables
8vo (195 x 132 mm). 96 leaves (2 excised). Original blind-stamped brown morocco, the front cover gilt with an emblematic vignette of quill, inkstand, and album, yellow endpapers, gilt edges, ticket of Washington bookseller Hudson Taylor; extremities worn, spine largely perished (some fragments preserved with the album), a little shaken.
In addition to Lincoln, this Civil War relic is signed by Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, Senator Charles Sumner, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other significant signatories are Rear Admiral A.H. Foote, Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (later chairman of the managers appointed to conduct impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson), Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax (later Grant’s vice president), New York governor Reuben E. Fenton, and senators James R. Doolittle, David Wilmot, and Lyman Trumbull. The album is further signed by a number of other political and military leaders, many from Pennsylvania.
According to an accompanying copy of an article from the 13 August 1902 issue of The Topeka Daily Capital, the album belonged to Theodore F. Wurts, who also solicited signatures and sentiments from his personal acquaintances. The autographs in the album extend from 1863 until 1895. Wurts (1844–1911) was born in Wilkes-Barre, and during the Civil War, he enlisted in "The Wurts Guard" that was part of the Thirteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania. He later joined the Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry. Wurts was also a member of the “Wide Awakes,” who supported Lincoln’s 1860 campaign.
The rather fanciful article in the Topeka newspaper describes Wurts accompanying his mother to a reception at the White House: "His mother, who knew Mr. Lincoln very well, took a novel plan to secure the President's autograph and photograph on one occasion, at a reception. Taking a pen, a small vial of ink and an album, she held them toward Mr. Lincoln as he greeted her. He took the pen and vial, and holding up one in each hand, said: 'Madam, you have made it very easy for me.'"
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