Sold for:
$360
$360
Lincoln Assassination, Letters. Two single page manuscript letters dated 23 and 24 April 1865, from Mrs. Greenleaf, of New Sharon, Maine, addressed to "Absent Husband and Father," describing, in a folksy style, the recent assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with old folds, 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. "Our pesdant is dead he hed branes blonn out he shot in the theater right bside his wife. [...] The fellow that shot him we have not got him yet his name was Booth that use to bee one of te play acters of the theater."
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
