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- Letter from Robert Todd…
- Creator:
- Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926
- Collection:
- Robert Todd Lincoln Correspondence
- Location:
- Manchester, Vermont
- Date of Original:
- 1919
- Description:
- Handwritten letter, 21 cm, on Hildene, Manchester, Vermont letterhead, signed by Robert T. Lincoln. Lincoln writes to antiquary Otho Wiecker debunking some Lincoln myths. In part: "... I am not a 'collector' and such a thing as a lithograph you mention possesses no interest for me. 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... The structure now enshrined in a great marble building in Kentucky is a fraud when represented as the actual home. So too with the 'Lincoln Family' pictures. There was never such a group actually assembled."
- Subject:
- Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926--Correspondence
- Category:
- Manuscripts & Documents
- Format of Original:
- Manuscript
- Item ID:
- 71201502600004
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Digital File ID:
- 71201502600004
- Available for Viewing:
- By appointment only
- Download:
- PDF (1000.75 KB)
