Mary Lincoln letter to Capt. C. H. Tompkins, ca. 1861-1865.

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Mary Lincoln letter to Capt. C. H. Tompkins, ca. 1861-1865.

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Consists of one autograph letter signed by Mary Lincoln to Capt. C. H. Tompkins requesting that he find a place for Thomas C. Kelly in his department. The letter is dated 24 October 186- and is on Executive Mansion stationery.

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882

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Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. She served as First Lady from 1861 until his assassination in 1865 at Ford’s Theatre. Daughter of Eliza Parker and Robert Smith Todd, pioneer settlers of Kentucky, Mary lost her mother before the age of seven. Her father remarried; and Mary remembered her childhood as “desolate” although she belonged to the aristocracy of Lexington, with high-spirited social life and a sound private education. Just...

Tompkins, Charles H., 1830-

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Kelly, Thomas C., 1917-1985

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