Southworth Library sells Lincoln manuscript for $3 million
It was a bittersweet moment for library trustees when the gavel came down on the auction of a rare manuscript written by Abraham Lincoln in 1864. The Southworth Library in Dryden sold the papers for $3.4 million, the most an American historical document has ever brought in at an auction. Dryden congressman John Dwight received the papers from Lincoln’s son in 1916. Dwight’s widow later donated the script to the library. The library has held the handwritten document for eighty years, but as our Tamara Lindstrom tells us, trustees say it was time to let it go.
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