AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (“YOUR FRIEND LINCOLN”), TO MARY S. OWENS, AT NEW SALEM, ILLINOIS

2 pages (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.; 248 x 197 mm) on a leaf of wove paper, unwatermarked, Vandalia, Illinois, 13 December 1836; vertical stain at lower half of letter obscuring about eight words and portions of a few others (legible with UV light), some fold