NEW YORK (AP) — A handwritten manuscript of an 1864 Abraham Lincoln speech sold for $3.44 million on the bicentennial of his birthday Thursday, setting a new auction record for any American historical document. The manuscript was sold to an anonymous phone bidder after spirited bidding in a crowded Christie’s auction house room. Proceeds from the sale will go toward a new wing for a library in New York’s Finger Lakes region, where the document has been since 1926.- – – -Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Lincoln 1864 manuscript sets record at NYC auction
February 12, 2009