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1891 Huber's Museum/Tobin facsimile
This is the 1891 Huber's Museum/Tobin facsimile, not Lincoln's original manuscript or handwriting.
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Executive Mansion
Washington, Nov 21, 1864
To Mrs Bixby, Boston, Mass,
Dear Madam.
I have been shown in the files
of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant
General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of
five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of
mine which should attempt to beguile you from the
grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain
from tendering you the consolation that may be found
in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I
pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish
of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished
memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride
that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice
upon the altar of freedom.
Yours very sincerely and respectfully.
A. Lincoln
The Celebrated "Bixby Letter."
Facsimile of the Original Manuscript on Exhibition at Huber's Museum in New York City.
A Letter of Condolence Written by Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby, of Boston, Mass., November 21, 1864
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