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Gilder Lehrman Document Number:
GLC02474
Title: to Mary Todd Lincoln
Author: Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Year: 1865/08/17
Place: Rochester, New York
Type of document: Autograph letter signed
Description: Douglass thanks Lincoln for former President Abraham Lincoln's walking stick. Notes that the gift is not merely a memento, but is an "inclination of his humane interest" in the "welfare of my whole race." Accompanied by a small newspaper clipping.
Full Text: Rochester N.Y. August 17, 1865. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln: Dear Madam: Allow me to thank you, as I certainly do thank you most sincerely for your thoughtful kindness in making me the owner of a cane which was formerly the property and the favorite walking staff of your late lamented husband the honored and venerated President of the United States. I assure you, that this inestimable memento of his Excellency will be retained in my possession while I live - an object of sacred interest - a token not merely of the kind consideration in which I have reason to know that [inserted: the] President was pleased to hold me personally, but [struck: of] as an indication of [struck: the] [inserted: his] humane [illegible strikeout] interest [in the] welfare of my whole race. With every proper sentiment of Respect and Esteem I am, Dear Madam, your Obed[ien]t Serv[an]t. Frederick Douglass.
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