Autograph letter signed : Rochdale, to Ticknor & Fields, 1867 January 2.

Conveying his thanks for a portrait of Abraham Lincoln that they and the artist William Edgar Marshall had sent him: "I could scarcely have rec'd anything from your Country that would have given me more pleasure. I shall value it greatly as a token of the friendly feeling you bear to me, & as a grand historic portrait of a man for whose character & memory I feel a profound veneration. He taught the United States & the World that a love of truth & a high morality are the main qualities of real statesmanship, & this is a lesson which many of the public men of all Countries have yet to learn."