CIVIL WAR ABRAHAM LINCOLN LETTER TO FANNY McCULLOUGH FACSIMILE w/PORTFOLIO c1964 For Sale

ORIGINAL! CIVIL WAR ABRAHAM LINCOLN LETTER TO FANNY McCULLOUGH FACSIMILE with PORTFOLIO c1964

ACTUAL SIZE FACSIMILE OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN'SLETTER TO FANNY McCULLOUGH DAUGHTER OF COLONEL WILLIAM McCULLOGH FACSIMILE w/PORTFOLIO c1964 CONSISTING OF; ONE LEAVE MAKING UP THE ENTIRETY OF THE LETTER, AND AN 2 PAGE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY BY THE UNITED STATES HISTORICAL SOCIETY CORRESPONDING TO THE HISTORY OF THE DOCUMENT IN A BEAUTIFULUNITED STATES HISTORICAL SOCIETY PORTFOLIO TITLED ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1861-1865.

PRODUCED IN c1964.

CONTENT OF THE LETTER OF AUTHENTICITY (INCLUDED):

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY

Presidential Letter

PORTFOLIO EDITION

This is an authentic and authorized reproduction of the letter from

Abraham Lincoln to Miss Fanny McCullough, documented by

Ralph Geoffrey Newman. The photograph of Abraham Lincoln,

by Matthew Brady, is from the Library of Congress.

No. 267 / 5,000

Virginia's Dabney

Virginius Dabney

Chairman, Advisory Committee

The United States Historical Society, in Richmond, Virginia, is a

non-profit educational organization dedicated to historical research

and the sponsorship of projects and issuance of objects which are

historically and artistically significant

Abraham Lincoln Letter To Fanny McCullough, Daughter Of Colonel William McCullough

December 23, 1862

This letter of Abraham Lincoln is regarded by the Lincoln scholar and autograph authority, Ralph Geoffrey Newman, to be the most valuable and important of the personal letters of the President. The original is valued in excess of $1 million.

Writing about Colonel McCullough, Carl Sandburg said that:

"Many times Lincoln had met and talked with her father, a Black Hawk War veteran, a Republican-party man, circuit clerk and then sheriff of McLean County — a man with one eye of no use and his left arm gone had at fifty-one years of age helped organize the 4th Illinois Cavalry and command it in battles under Grant. One evening after a day of feeling out' the enemy from Grant's army forty miles away, Colonel McCullough was riding back toward Grant, the men tired after several clashes with Pemberton's infantry near Coffeyville, Mississippi. As he rode his horse on a slow walk, with his two orderlies and bugler just behind him, they came to a slope thick-grown with jack oaks. Suddenly from a horse's length in front came the cry, Halt, get down and surrender!' Colonel William McCullough turned in his stirrups, facing his regiment, and called:

Fourth Cavalry! Left front into line! Charge!' The timber blazed with rifle fire, McCullough fell bullet-riddled, having shouted his last command. His men broke through the trap set for them; no other life was lost, and his men said he had saved them at his own cost. Six days later under a flag of truce his body was brought through the enemy lines and taken home to Bloomington with an escort of officers. Lincoln knew McCullough and his family in Illinois, and Fanny remembered sitting in his lap with her sister Nanny. Ten days would pass after the death before Lincoln could find the words and the courage to express to Fanny his own personal grief. Though glowing with tender and heartfelt compassion, he wrote with brilliant legal clarity. After first expressing both of their sorrows, he led Fanny step by step away from herself and her despair to consideration of her mourning mother. It accomplished what the family and neighbors could not - for she believed Mr. Lincoln.

Fanny, then Mrs. Frank Orme, died in Washington on March 4, 1920. In a secret drawer in her desk was her letter from her " sincere friend, A.Lincoln."

CONTENT OF THEUNITED STATES HISTORICAL SOCIETY COVER LETTER ON U.S.H.S. LETTERHEAD (INCLUDED):

UNITED STATES HISTORICAL SOCIETY

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

VIRGINIUS DABNEY

Chairman

SUSAN SIRKIS

Author/Doll Designer

ERICA WILSON

Author/Designer

MEL TORMÉ

Entertainer

DORMAN H. WINFREY

Director Emeritus, Texas State Library

Dear Fanny, Washington December 23, 1862

It is with deep grief that I learn of the death of your kind and brave

Father; and, especially, that it is affecting your young heart beyond what is

common in such cases. In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and,

to the young, it comes with bittered agony, because it takes them unaware.

The older have learned to ever expect it.

I am anxious to afford some

alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time.

You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so?

And yet it is a mistake, you are sure to be happy again.

To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now.

I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it,

to feel better at once. The memory of your dear Father, instead of an agony,

will yet be a sad sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer, and holier sort than you

have known before. Please present my kind regards

to your afflicted mother, Miss. Fanny McCullough.

Your sincere friend,

A. Lincoln

CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE THROUGHOUT FOR ITS 60+ YEARS WITH SOME VERY LIGHT HANDLING

HAND NUMBERED; 267 / 5000

THE FACSIMILE PRINTED DOCUMENT AND THE HALFTONE PRINTED BDADY IMAGE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN ARE LIGHTLY TAPED ON THE REVERSE (AS DESIGNED) IN 4 SMALL SPOTS TO HOLD THEM TO THEIR REMOVABLE SLIP FRAMES.

PORTFOLIO HAS BRIGHT GILT: COVER TITLE WITHU.S.H.S. AND SEAL, SPINE TITLES.

PORTFOLIO DIMENSION (CLOSED) : 9 7/8" x 12 1/2"

(please see pictures)