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Title: The Lincoln children. Robert Todd Lincoln
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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o died recently in Manches-ter, Vt. Mr. Markens, who Is the father ofDr. Edward W. Markens, physician ofthe Essex County Jail in Newark, Isnow completing another volume on Lin-coln. He has tentatively named ItUnfamiliar Chronicles of Lincoln. Instacks of communications he has re-ceived from Robert T. Lincoln, Mr.Markens says, he ha.s obtained a mass0f information on President Lincoln.Although he received many lettersfrom the son of the President. Mr.Markens met Robert T. Lincoln onlyonce, in 1883, while working as a re-porter in New York. Vv 7 - ^^ 55. LINCOLN, ROHERT TODD Seoretary of War under Garfield and Arthur.Minister to Great Britain. Son of Abraham Lincoln. Autograph letter sig-ned on engraved stationery v/hilst Minister, London, April 9, 1890, 2pa,ses.A fine letter of thanks for cond^.lence* In part ...the blow v/as and isvery heavy—you saw our boy on th^ ship and v;hen you l«iovj that he was just as good as he looked 1 . J ^ you oan ima:;^ine sometlng of our loss 4.75 •
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ore Bulletin of The Lincoln National Life Foundation . . . Dr. R. Gerald McMurtry, EditorPublished each month by The Lincoln National Life Inijurance Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana Number 1563 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA May, 1968 Robert T. Lincoln Letters The first Lincoln item to be acquired by The LincolnNational Life Insurance Company was a letter writtenby Robert T. Lincoln to Arthur F. Hall, dated August 3,1905. In this letter Lincolns eldest son gave the newlyorganized insurance company permission to use his fath-ers portrait on its letterhead, and he also provided whathe considered to be his fathers best photograph. Like-wise the letter implied that the insurance company coulduge the name Lincoln with his approval. From the insurance companys point of view the RobertLincoln letter and photographbecame one of the firms mostvaluable assets and it is easy tosee how it would serve as anucleus for the building of agreat Lincoln library and mu-seum such as the company hasprovided in its home

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