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Feb 12, 2009 12:11 pm US/Central

Lincoln Manuscript Sells For $3.44M In N.Y.

Handwritten Speech Sets Auction Record

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) ― A handwritten manuscript of an 1864 Abraham Lincoln speech has sold for $3.44 million in New York City, setting a new auction record for any American historical document.

The sale at Christie's on Thursday was just slightly higher than the previous record of $3.40 million set last year, also for a 1864 Lincoln document.

The speech was delivered at the White House after Lincoln was re-elected.

The manuscript was sold to an anonymous phone bidder, on the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth.

Proceeds from the sale will go toward a new wing for the Southworth Library Association in Dryden, N.Y., in the Finger Lakes region. The document was given to the library in 1926.
 

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