Robert Todd Lincoln to Mrs. Stuart Mosby Coleman

Robert Todd Lincoln to Mrs. Stuart Mosby Coleman

Robert Todd Lincoln replies to a request from Mrs. Stuart Mosby Coleman for the names and photographs of his children and grandchildren. Lincoln understands that Mrs. Coleman is the daughter of Colonel John S. Mosby whom he "remembers very pleasantly." Lincoln names his children and grandchildren but declines to send a photograph.

Lincoln, Robert Todd

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

1925-03-12

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3014 N Street Washington, D.C. March 12, 1925 Mrs. Stuart Mosby Coleman The Wyoming, Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Coleman: I am in receipt of your letter of the 9th instant, from which I note that you are a daughter of Colonel John S. Mosby, who I remember very pleasantly. I note also that you plan to write an article in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Surrender at Appomattox (at which I was personally present) and that you wish the names of my children and grandchildren to be used in this connection. I have two living daughters, - Mrs. Mary Isham and Mrs. Jessie Johnson. Mrs. Isham has but one son, Lincoln Isham; while Mrs. Johnson has two children, Robert Lincoln Beckwith and

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-2- Mary Lincoln Beckwith. I am sorry to say, however, that I cannot comply with your request in regard to a photograph of my children and grandchildren, as I have none here which I can send to you. Believe me, Very truly yours, Robert Lincoln

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