BIB_ID
120768
Accession number
MA 1336
Creator
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Display Date
1851 Nov. 25.
Credit line
Gift of Alexander P. Morgan, 1950.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address), bound ; 33.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with many penciled notes and sums on it.
Addressed to "John D. Johnston / Charleston / Coles County / Illinois."
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Addressed to "John D. Johnston / Charleston / Coles County / Illinois."
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
William Henry Herndon; Charles Henry Hart; from the Lambert Collection (Anderson Galleries, 15 January, 1914, I, lot 442); from the library of Junius S. Morgan; presented to the Morgan Library by Alexander P. Morgan, 1950.
Summary
Refusing to accede to Johnston's proposal to sell a parcel of land, from which Lincoln's step-mother receives her income.
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