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Abraham Lincoln / Hamlin Jugate Portrait 1860 Presidential Campaign Letter Sheet and Matching Envelope Combination
1860 Beardless Abraham Lincoln / Hannibal Hamlin Presidential Campaign Letter Sheet with Matching Envelope, used in 1870 by the noted Writer and Diplomat Edmund Flagg (1815-1890), Very Fine.

1860 Lincoln / Hamlin Campaign Letter Sheet with Jugate Portraits of a “beardless” Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, measuring 8" x 5". Accompanied by the matching Campaign Envelope, addressed in pencil to "Dr. Welch, Present" - hand carried outside of the mail, no postmarks. The letter-sheet has a bold brown ink 2-page Handwritten Letter, dated Sunday, Jan. 16, 1870, and Signed with initials, "E.F.".

A pencil notation at top identifies the writer as Edmund Flagg (1815-1890), Writer, Lawyer and Diplomat, a Bowdoin College graduate, he worked at the State Department and the Patent Office. He is buried at Oakwood Cemetery, Falls Church, Fairfax Co., Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. This letter concerns doings and needs at his farm in Virginia, and news of importance to Virginia, reading in part:

"The chances are that Virginia will be back in the Union tomorrow. The House has passed the Bill, & the Senate is to vote on the subject at 3 P.M. tomorrow."

This well written letter has faint normal transmittal folds, the envelope has a small soiling spot at its bottom edge. A rare historic 1860 Presidential Political Campaign Letter Sheet and Matching Envelope of further historic importance to Virginia. (2 items).
EDMUND FLAGG was born in the town of Wicasset, Maine, on the twenty-fourth day of November, 1815. He graduated at Bowdoin College, in the class of 1835, and immediately thereafter emigrated, with his mother and sister, to Louisville, Kentucky, where he taught the classics for a few months to a class of boys; but having entered into an arrangement to contribute to the columns of the Louisville Journal, made a journey, through Illinois and Missouri, and wrote a series of letters which were, in 1838, published in two volumes by Harper and Brothers, in New York, under the title of " The Far West."

In 1848, Mr. Flagg was appointed Secretary to Edward A. Hannegan, Minister to Berlin. He spent nearly two years in Europe.

On his return to the United States he resumed the practice of law at St. Louis, but in 1850 was selected by President Fillmore as Consul to the port of Venice. In that "City of the Sea" he remained two years and then returned to St. Louis, where he completed a work begun in Europe-"Venice, the City of the Sea "-published in New York in 1853, in two illustrated volumes. It comprises a history of that celebrated capital, fiom the invasion by Napoleon, in 1797, to its capitulation to Radetzsky, after the siege of 1848-9. In 1854, Mr. Flagg contributed sketches on the West to "The United States Illustrated" a work published by A. Meyer, New York. He is now the chief clerk of a Commercial Bureau in the Department of State at Washington... His metrical compositions were chiefly written for the Louisville Journal, and the News Letter, while he was its editor. A prominent place is given him in a handsome volume, titled, "The Native Poets of Maine" edited by S. Herbert Lancey, and published at Bangor in 1854.
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln, Jugate Portrait, Hannibal Hamlin, Beardless, Political Campaign
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