The problem is Lydia Bixby hated Lincoln. Tradition relates that she had moved from Richmond to Boston, but continued to support the Confederacy. If that's true, she likely burned it.
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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.