http://blogs.haverford.edu/special/2010/03/09/rich-trove-of-autograph-letters-featured/ Just another News.haverford.edu weblog Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.haverford.edu/special/2010/03/09/rich-trove-of-autograph-letters-featured/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Lucy Barber Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:13:50 +0000 http://blogs.haverford.edu/blogs/special/?p=889#comment-107 Do you know if this letter has been cited by any historian? Or did Lincoln sign so many similar letters that it is more symbolic of the way mid-19th century people really valued such letters as tangible connections. I think today I would want a photograph with President Obama more than his signature, but I think that suggests how times have changed.

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