{"id":111059,"date":"2017-11-30T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:06:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:06:23","slug":"update-lincoln-letter-on-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/30\/update-lincoln-letter-on-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Update &#8211; Lincoln Letter On Slavery Fetches $3.4 Million!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<p>Back on March 13, 2008 I reported the <a href=\"http:\/\/abrahamlincolnblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/lincoln-letter-could-bring-5-million-at.html\">story<\/a> about the letter Abraham Lincoln wrote to schoolchildren in  Massachusetts in response to their petition for him to end slavery. The  letter is beautiful, eloquent, and moving as so much of his writing was.  The <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">pre<\/span>-auction estimate was between 3 and 5 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The auction was held today at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080403\/ts_alt_afp\/ushistorypoliticsauctionlincoln\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Sotheby&#8217;s<\/span><\/a> in New York and fetched an incredible $3.4 million. As usual with these  special pieces of history, the bidder remains anonymous, unless of  course he or she chooses to reveal his or her identity at some point.  One would hope that the new owner will consider putting it on display at  some point or even consider donating it to a museum, so everyone can  enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Also auctioned today was the only known autograph of  Abraham Lincoln signed on the day of the dedication of the Gettysburg  Cemetery, November 19, 1863. That autograph sold for an amazing $937,000  to a first time bidder at <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Sotheby&#8217;s<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>There  were other documents signed by Lincoln and other presidents such as  Thomas Jefferson which failed to sell. That of course means that the  reserve price or opening price was not met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on March 13, 2008 I reported the story about the letter Abraham Lincoln wrote to schoolchildren in Massachusetts in response to their petition for him to end slavery. The letter is beautiful, eloquent, and moving as so much of his writing was. The pre-auction estimate was between 3 and 5 million dollars. The auction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}