THE PROPERTY OF A LADY LINCOLN, MARY, First Lady. Autograph letter signed ("Mary Lincoln") to James Gordon Bennett founder and editor of the New York Herald ; "Executive Mansion" [Washington, D.C.], 13 April [1865]. 2 pages on Mrs. Lincoln's personal monogrammed stationery, 8vo, 214 x 130mm. (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.), written on pages 1 and 3 of a four-page sheet, in good condition. THE DAY BEFORE PRESIDENT LINCOLN IS ASSASSINATED, MRS. LINCOLN REJOICES OVER THE "GREAT & GLORIOUS VICTORIES" OF THE UNION ARMY In this exceptional letter, written days after the fall of Richmond and the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox, Mary Lincoln expresses her elation about the Union's victory over the Confederate Army. "Remembering with much pleasure, the last time I had the pleasure of seeing you in New York, & our conversation about "John Randolph" & his peculiar eccentricities of character, I avail myself of Mr. [Rufus E.] Andrews' kindness, to send you to look at & amuse yourself with, a rough & quaint likeness of a person, once so celebrated, & whose talents will ever be remembered, by our American people - We are rejoicing beyond expression , over our great & glorious victories & appreciate most gratefully your devotion to our cause & great influence exercised in crushing, this terrible rebellion..." James Gordon Bennett was a personal friend of the Lincoln's, as well as a political ally. On 22 April 1861, Bennett informed President Lincoln through Henry Villard [journalist] that he would support the administration unconditionally and he donated his son's yacht to the government revenue service. On 6 May 1861 Lincoln accepted the yacht from Bennett. Letters in which Mary Lincoln alludes directly to the Civil War are quite uncommon. A one sentence excerpt published (from an auction catalogue) in Turner & Turner's Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters , (New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1987, p. 219 ). Provenance: 1. James Gordon Bennett the recipient (sale, Anderson, 23 November 1926, lot 80). 2. The present owner.
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY LINCOLN, MARY, First Lady. Autograph letter signed ("Mary Lincoln") to James Gordon Bennett founder and editor of the New York Herald ; "Executive Mansion" [Washington, D.C.], 13 April [1865]. 2 pages on Mrs. Lincoln's personal monogrammed stationery, 8vo, 214 x 130mm. (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.), written on pages 1 and 3 of a four-page sheet, in good condition. THE DAY BEFORE PRESIDENT LINCOLN IS ASSASSINATED, MRS. LINCOLN REJOICES OVER THE "GREAT & GLORIOUS VICTORIES" OF THE UNION ARMY In this exceptional letter, written days after the fall of Richmond and the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox, Mary Lincoln expresses her elation about the Union's victory over the Confederate Army. "Remembering with much pleasure, the last time I had the pleasure of seeing you in New York, & our conversation about "John Randolph" & his peculiar eccentricities of character, I avail myself of Mr. [Rufus E.] Andrews' kindness, to send you to look at & amuse yourself with, a rough & quaint likeness of a person, once so celebrated, & whose talents will ever be remembered, by our American people - We are rejoicing beyond expression , over our great & glorious victories & appreciate most gratefully your devotion to our cause & great influence exercised in crushing, this terrible rebellion..." James Gordon Bennett was a personal friend of the Lincoln's, as well as a political ally. On 22 April 1861, Bennett informed President Lincoln through Henry Villard [journalist] that he would support the administration unconditionally and he donated his son's yacht to the government revenue service. On 6 May 1861 Lincoln accepted the yacht from Bennett. Letters in which Mary Lincoln alludes directly to the Civil War are quite uncommon. A one sentence excerpt published (from an auction catalogue) in Turner & Turner's Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters , (New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1987, p. 219 ). Provenance: 1. James Gordon Bennett the recipient (sale, Anderson, 23 November 1926, lot 80). 2. The present owner.
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