ALS, 1880 February 22 : Chicago, to Miss Effie M. Huntington, New York.

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ALS, 1880 February 22 : Chicago, to Miss Effie M. Huntington, New York.

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The sculptor describes the day in 1860 when he made a cast of Lincoln's hand at his home in Springfield. "His right hand was somewhat swollen from excessive hand shaking by an immense crowd of visitors the previous evening including the Committee of notification appointed by the Convention to formally notify him of the great honor conferred."

3 p. ; 20 x 13 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Volk, Leonard Wells, 1828-1895

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Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895) was an American sculptor. Born November 7, 1828 in Wellstown (now Wells), New York, he was one of twelve children of Garrett and Elizabeth Gesner Volk. At sixteen he began work as a marble cutter in his father's shop in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Four years later, in 1848, he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he opened a studio and studied drawing and modeling independent of formal instruction. Stephen A. Douglas, a cousin of Volk's wife, became inter...

Huntington, Effie M.

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