Son of the prominent Pennsylvania jurist and ardent supporter of Lincoln during the 1860 campaign, he served as an adjutant general during the Civil War and later became a diplomat (1837–1896). Two LSs, each one page both sides, 5 x 8, Paris, February 27 and April 11, 1893. Letters regarding a portrait of Lincoln. The first, in part: “I have written requesting copies to be sent to me of the correspondence which passed between President Lincoln and my Father, Chief Justice John Meredith Read, touching the miniature of Mr. Lincoln which my Father instructed Mr. J. Henry Brown to paint.” The second, in part: “I have the pleasure now to enclose to copies of such letters…from my father to Mr. Lincoln, to Mr. Greeley and to Mr. J. Henry Brown, concerning the latters miniature of Mr. Lincoln…I regret that I have not yet been able to discover Mr. Lincoln’s letters on the subject.” In overall fine condition, with central vertical and horizontal folds passing through the signatures, and a couple pencil notations to one letter. RR Auction COA.
