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Description:
Lincoln, Mary Todd (1818-1882) Signed Request for a Pass, 1865, February 7. One lined sheet on Treasury Department letterhead, a request to issue a pass for Thomas Sturgis, accomplished in the hand of D.W. Mahon, signed "Mrs Lincoln" at bottom, with an albumen carte-de-visite photograph of Mary Todd Lincoln, document 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
Estimate $800-1,000
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Keywords
Mary Todd, Thomas Sturgis, D.W. MahonJohn Dorfman
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