Lot 547
Recollections Of A Man And Woman Who Knew Lincoln. Letters and notes sent to John E. Boos, an avid Lincoln collector, by Lucy A. Lamon and R.C. Keyes, giving accounts of encounters with Abraham Lincoln. Lucy writes 4 pages from Paris, Illinois in 1932 that Ward H. Lamon, her husband's cousin, was partners with Lincoln in Bloomington and Danville. "Ward Lamon went to the White House before going away on government business and begged Mr. Lincoln to not go to the theatre while he was away - but he thought that was foolishness, and would not promise - and was killed while Lamon was away…." She reports a conversation at a dinner her husband attended where Lincoln was present and said he never read any fiction except Shakespeare. She adds, "I have seen Mr. Lincoln at my father's residence. At the time I took my first steps I heard him in my uncle's grove make a political speech in 1856--and again in 1858. My father had died…and he went immediately after the talk in the grove to see my mother. I saw him after he became President at the Continental Hotel in Philadelphia…."
R.C. Keyes, who was born in 1848, writes from Springfield, Illinois to Boos in 1940 and 1945. He remembers passing Lincoln on his horse (Old Robin) and Lincoln and his father speaking, seeing Lincoln and Steven Douglas in the streets, Lincoln's growing whiskers ("I thought the whiskers improved his looks very much"), seeing Lincoln as he waited for election results, etc. He describes saying goodby to Lincoln when he left for the White House, then meeting the funeral train, the body lying in state, etc. Very interesting recollections. Overall Very Fine.
Estimated Value $800 - 1,000.
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