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Edwina Booth Grossman thanks John Malone for his article about her "dearly loved and honored father." She misses her father "but would not call him back to suffer the ills which had assailed his gentle spirit!" The letter includes its envelope.

Edwina Booth Grossman asks John Malone if he knows anything about a campaign underway to raise a statue of Edwin Booth in Central Park. Edwina uses stationary and envelope with black mourning border.

Edwina Booth Grossman endorses a mourning envelope to Lilian with the inscription: "With Edwina's love for Lilian -- my father's signature."

Edwina Booth Grossman thanks Mr. Palmer for his kind note and accepts his offer of a private box at his theater. A small clipping of Edwin Booth has been pasted inside the note.

Elizabeth W. Johnson writes a note of sympathy to Edwina Booth Grossman on the death of her father, Edwin.

Stephen A. Douglas writes an endorsement of William C. Eames Jr. which is also signed by James Shields, M. Carpenter, William Prentiss, J. Lamborn, Lyman Trumbull, S.H. Treat, Sidney Breese, Browne and J. Butterfield.

The engraved portrait, signed and inscribed in pencil A. Lincoln with additional ink inscription: "To W.M. Kasson/Feby 18th 1861" written on a small slip attached to the bottom of the image is enclosed in a contemporary gutta-percha decorative hinged…

An envelope in black mourning border addressed to John Malone by Edwina Booth Grossman is empty, without an accompanying letter. Mr. Malone is residing at the Players' Club.

This Illustrated envelope is addressed to George P. Davis of Beloit, Wisconsin. The bright yellow envelope has a three cent postage stamp in the upper right corner with a Galesburg postmark stamped over it. The envelope is illustrated on the left…

This envelope is addressed to George P. Davis, Esq. of Beloit, Wisconsin, with a Bloomington, Illinois, postmark. The bright yellow envelope is illustrated with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln engraved by Mendel. The stamp once affixed to the envelope…

Edwin Booth addresses an envelope to John E. Russell of Leicester, Massachusetts. The stamp has been cut off of the envelope.

New Salem Justice of the Peace Bowling Green signs an estray notice. On Christmas Eve, Green accepts an appraisal of a young colt from John Yearby, a resident of New Salem. William Hoheimer and James Berry, a friend of Abraham Lincoln, appraised the…

The narrow partially-printed ticket assigned to Mr. J. Craft is for two seats in the dress circle, first row.

In his own hand, Frank B. Carpenter copies a portion of the poem "Last leaf on the tree" by Oliver Wendell Holmes that Abraham Lincoln once quoted to him.

Frank writes from Philadelphia to his brother about his prospects at work and offers his reaction to Lincoln's inauguration and subsequent celebration in Washington.

Frederick Meserve senda an advertisement for his book and a portrait of John Wilkes Booth to Robert Todd Lincoln

Frederick Meserve asks Robert Todd Lincoln about photos of Robert, Thomas and Willie Lincoln to be used in his book.

Frederick Meserve urges Robert Todd Lincoln to reply to his query of December 26, 1910.

F.W. Seward signs a letter to B.B. French requesting copies of the programme of arrangements for the Presidential Inauguration to send to the Foreign Ministers. There is a stationer's mark in upper left corner.

G.T. Wood and James A. Dawson understand that Congress will soon pass the house bill to reorganize the district court of Kentucky. They recommend to President Abraham Lincoln the name of Asher W. Graham of Bowling Green, Kentucky, as judge of the…

Robert Todd Lincoln makes one handwritten correction in the galley proofs of a speech he gave at Galesburg, Illinois, at the at the celebration of the 38th anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas debate in Galesburg.

George Constantine presents Abraham Lincoln with a Greek translation of The Pioneer Boy, and How He Became President by William Makepeace Thayer. This letter is glued to the inside front cover of the book. The book also contains a letter from Thayer…

George C. Madison, cashier for the law firm of Isham, Lincoln, and Beale, forwards a memo to Laura Isham, the wife of Robert Todd Lincoln's law partner.

George Purnell Fisher uses his personal stationary to write Edwards Pierrepont concerning some legal matters.

George Williams writes a revealing letter to his niece regarding the accuracy of William H. Herndon's work on Lincoln and recounting much Herndon family history.