Lincoln's letter sets record at auction
Abraham Lincoln's heartfelt letter to youngsters who asked him to free America's "little slave children" was sold at auction Thursday for $3.4 million.
The 1864 letter set a record for a Lincoln manuscript, as well as for any presidential and American manuscript, Sotheby's said.
It was purchased by an anonymous American private collector bidding by telephone.
Lincoln's hand-penned reply was contained in a letter to a woman who had mailed the children's petition from Concord, Mass.
Read entire article at AP
The 1864 letter set a record for a Lincoln manuscript, as well as for any presidential and American manuscript, Sotheby's said.
It was purchased by an anonymous American private collector bidding by telephone.
Lincoln's hand-penned reply was contained in a letter to a woman who had mailed the children's petition from Concord, Mass.