Assassination Trivia

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In a letter to his wife, Jeannie, Matthew Wilson wrote that Mrs. Lincoln had sent "clothing for the full length." Yet according to one of Wilson's descendants, who wrote a very interesting article about the artist in the October 1972 edition of the Connecticut Historical Society, "there is no full-length portrait of Lincoln in existence by Matthew Wilson."

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