The False Cabin

Robert also dismissed false pictures and landmarks claimed to be historic as he did in this letter where he stated that no family portrait existed, and the cabin claimed to be a Lincoln’s birthplace was "a fraud" and further stated about the cabin, "It is of course the work of some person ignorant of the probable environments of the event. So with pretended pictures of the Lincoln Cabin. They easily indicate what it probably was, but the actual cabin was a decayed ruin long before my father's election."