How Reliable Is This?

[LincolnToddFan]

At the time of Lincoln's autopsy so much of his hair was cut off that the corpse was reportedly left bald in the back. His hair was being given away as relics left, right and center. It was quite literally all over the place. In MTL's anthology of letters she mentions that she had saved a stash of it in one of her closets...and when she was moving out of the WH she discovered that it had been stolen.

At this point the only samples of AL's hair that I would trust as authentic are the samples in the Smithsonian, and the snippet contained in the ring owned by Teddy Roosevelt that is on display at his museum/home Sagamore Hill.

Maybe there might also be samples in the Library of Congress and in the Lincoln Library/Museum in Springfield?