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Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Otho Wiecker

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
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