S.S. MCCLURE, _New York_.
_Dear Sir_: Accept my thanks for the engraving of the earliest picture
of Mr. Lincoln. I recognized it at once, though I never saw Mr.
Lincoln, and know him only from photographs of him while he was
President. I think you were fortunate in securing the daguerreotype
from which this was engraved, and it will form a very interesting
contribution to the literature connected with this remarkable man.
From its resemblance to his later pictures I should judge the likeness
must be an excellent one.
Very truly yours,