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Lot 63
Sale 6441 - Lincoln’s Legacy: Historic Americana from the Life of Abraham Lincoln
May 21, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$6,000 -
9,000
Price Realized
$15,360
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LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865).
Autograph note signed ("A. Lincoln"). Washington, D.C., 9 July 1861.
Autograph note signed ("A. Lincoln"). Washington, D.C., 9 July 1861.
1 p. on bifolium; 8 x 5 in. (203 x 127 mm); creasing from old folds; scattered soiling.
Reads in full: "To-Day July 9. 1861. Miss Isabella Dorsey, of Baltimore, presents the name of her brother—Theodore C. Dorsey—to be a Cadet at West-Point—He will be sixteen years of age the 19th of November this year—When he shall be old enough I should like to oblige his sister—A. Lincoln".
President Lincoln refers to the request of Isabella Dorsey of Baltimore to appoint her 16 year old brother, Theodore C. Dorsey, as a cadet at West Point, writing that "when he shall be old enough I should like to oblige his sister." White, Lincoln in Private, p. 253. Not in Basler.
Provenance:
Louise Taper, Beverly Hills, California
Property from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Foundation