Artists of Abraham Lincoln portraits correspondence . e picture to ourlocal historical society - which shows how disinterested a felloe Ccrn act;but Baker was a very zealous member of that society. I think I shall goover to the museum and ask the custodian to look through the papare whichBaker must have left there. (He was a great collector, and may have leftbundles of old papers with the museum, and, maybe, they have never beenexamined with care. Of course, it is a long-shot, for, if I c\r right inbelieving the picture was a beardless-portrait of Lincoln, how would Colfaxhave come into posses
Artists of Abraham Lincoln portraits correspondence . e picture to ourlocal historical society - which shows how disinterested a felloe Ccrn act;but Baker was a very zealous member of that society. I think I shall goover to the museum and ask the custodian to look through the papare whichBaker must have left there. (He was a great collector, and may have leftbundles of old papers with the museum, and, maybe, they have never beenexamined with care. Of course, it is a long-shot, for, if I c\r right inbelieving the picture was a beardless-portrait of Lincoln, how would Colfaxhave come into possession of it, as his intimacy with Lincoln must have begunafter Mar. 4, 1861. My recollection is that Baker told me that he ran acrossthe photograph in/an old b-ok that had been discarded as worthless when thelibrary was broken up - long after the death of Mr. Colfax. (i\5rs. Colfaxcontined to live in the home long after I came to South Bend in 1902, andthe library remained much as it had been in his life-time - as£have alwaysunderstood. Respectfully. TELEPHONE 4-2161 WM. EDWI N MILLER ATTORNEY AT LAW411-4 J. M. S. BUILDINGSOUTH BEND 1, INDIANA March 12, 1953 Dr. Louis A. Warren, C/o Lincoln National Foundation, , Indiana. Dear Dr. Warren: I mailed you a letter this , in which I suggested the pos-sibility that a certain beardless-photograph of Lincoln (found in a discordedbook from Hon. Schuyler Colfaxs library) might be an unknown portrait of Lin-coln. I have telephoned with Mrs. Stanfield, custodian of the Northern IndianaHistorical Museum, and she tells metliat there is attached to a large picture ofSchuyler Colfax (in the Museum) a cabinet-sized beardless-photograph of Lincolnwhich bears the notation, owned by Schuyler Colfax; taken in Chicago in 1857(or words to that effect;. She said it is a brownish photograph, - which cor-responds fodS my recollection of the one George Baker showed to me. The fact thatthe notation states that it was taken in Chicago in 1857,
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