ABRAHAM LINCOLN SIGNED AND HANDWRITTEN LETTER
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN SIGNED AND HANDWRITTEN LETTER:
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www.TrishAutographs.com ABRAHAM LINCOLN SIGNED AND HANDWRITTEN LETTER ABRAHAMLINCOLNLetter 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
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.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)
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