Record ID:
121118
Accession number:
MA 229.1
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description:
1 item (4 p.), unbound ; 31.4 cm
Notes:
The following items are housed together: manuscript of Lincoln's "The Bear Hunt" (MA 229.1); letter from Andrew Johnston to Wynne, 11 August, 1869 (MA 229.2); and two letters from R.A. Brock to George S. Hellman, 28 March and 7 November 1905 (MA 229.3-4); these items are described in four individual records.
Date is based on when Lincoln sent the manuscript to Andrew Johnston.
Formerly bound in red morocco; disbound in 1995, and front cover retained with item.
Housed in:
Blue cloth drop-spine box (37.2 cm)
Provenance:
Sent by Lincoln in 1846 to his friend, Andrew Johnston, who presented it to Thomas H. Wynne in 1869; Wynne bequeathed it to R. A. Brock who in 1905 sold it to George S. Hellman (New York Co-operative Society) who sold it to J. Pierpont Morgan.
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