Letters: [Washington, D.C.], to Julia [Edwards Baker] and Edward [L. Baker], 1862 March-April.

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Letters: [Washington, D.C.], to Julia [Edwards Baker] and Edward [L. Baker], 1862 March-April.

Letters to daughter and son-in-law written while staying with the Lincolns at the Executive Mansion following the death of Willie Lincoln relate details of Mary Lincoln's grief, as well as social life in Washington, D.C.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...