ABRAHAM LINCOLN HANDWRITTEN LETTER SIGNED, A RARE HISTORICAL FIND

ABRAHAM LINCOLN HANDWRITTEN LETTER SIGNED, A RARE HISTORICAL FIND

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN HANDWRITTEN LETTER SIGNED, A RARE HISTORICAL FIND:
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN SIGNED AND HANDWRITTEN LETTER ABRAHAMLINCOLN HANDWRITTEN LETTER, A HISTORICAL RARE FIND!Handwritten Letter Signed, to Hezekiah M. Wead. Springfield, Illinois, December6, 1846. (Reads in full below historical background.)
HistoricalBackground:

Fellow attorney Hezekiah Wead engaged Lincoln to help with twocases pending in Springfield, Illinois, court. As noted here, Lincoln filed adeclaration in one case and provided a status update on the other.

Courtrecords no longer exist for this period in Lincoln\'s career, so the exactnature of Nicholas vs. Herbert is unknown, although much of his general lawpractice revolved around debt and land cases. Lincoln\'s use of the phrase\"according to Gunter\" is also curious; Roy Basler, editor of theCollected Works of Abraham Lincoln, had been

unableto locate any legal scholarship pertaining to anyonenamed\"Gunter.\" Instead, he postulated that Lincoln is revertingto a \"bit of surveyor\'s lingo, the equivalent of \'according to Hoyle,\'EdmundGunter being the surveyor\'s authority.\" Lincoln had beenasurveyor for a few years in the 1830s.

HezekiahWead migrated from Vermont to Illinois to pursue a legal career. Like Lincoln,he was also interested in public office. Wead was a delegate to the IllinoisState Constitutional Convention in 1847. The two men remained friends despitefinding themselves on opposite sides of legal cases and political parties.Although Wead was a Democrat, hecongratulated Lincoln when he won the1860 Republican Partynomination, and remained pro-Union , opposingsecession and strongly supporting Lincoln\'s efforts to crush therebellion.Condition Very fine but for small tear at seal. A fragment ofthe wax seal remains.

Reads in full;


Letter Signed, to Hezekiah M. Wead. Springfield, Illinois, December6, 1846. 1 p. Integral address leaf in Lincoln\'s hand.

FriendWead:

Yoursby the hand of Mr. Davidson was duly received - I will have your

declarationfiled and rule taken tomorrow, according to Gunter - Your

caseof Nicholas vs. Herbert, stands on the Docket No. 57, assigned to

noparticular day for trial - If the opposite party will be ready to

tryit, as soon as the court will, my opinion is you may come right

along- My recollection is that I have never known the trial of a case

inthis court, delayed beyond the first week, when both parties were ready fortrial.

Yourstruly, A. Lincoln

Accompanied With a Letter of Authenticity

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)



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