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[Dave Taylor]

Here's an article from 1925 about the gloves. It doesn't say anything in the article about the gloves being "blood stained."

https://digitalcollections.library.oakla...a5f3ab.pdf

Also, these are not the only pair of Lincoln gloves attributed to Ford's Theatre. In 1956, the Illinois State Historical Library received a donation of gloves said to have been used by the President at Ford's. Here is the article from the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society about the donation:

""LAST PAIR OF GLOVES A. LINCOLN WORE"
A pair of white kid gloves, identified as the "Last pair of
gloves A. Lincoln wore. Were found in his pocket after the
murder" recently were presented to the Illinois State His-
torical Library along with twelve letters by Mary Todd Lin-
coln, seven by her sister, Mrs. Ninian W. Edwards, and sixty-
six by Illinois Senator David J.Baker, Sr.
This collection constituted the major part of the Baker-
Edwards family papers and mementoes which were given to
the Library by Philip R. Baker of Pasadena, California. He
is a retired United States Navy Commander, a great-grand-
nephew of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and a great-
great-grandson of Ninian Edwards and also of Senator Baker.
The identification of the gloves is written in ink and
signed "E. L. Baker, Jr." on the back of his business card as
city editor of the Illinois State journal of Springfield. He was
Commander Baker's father and Mrs. Lincoln's favorite grand-
nephew- because he reminded her of her sons Willie and
Tad. The dozen letters by Mrs. Lincoln were addressed to
him as "Dear Lewis." The earliest of these was written in
Havre, France, on October 17, 1876 and the last in New York
on Grand Central Hotel stationery and dated March 21, 1882.
In this final letter she asked Lewis to take care of an invalid's
chair and some medicine she was sending. Soon afterward
Mrs. Lincoln returned to Springfield where she died the fol-
lowing July 16 at the home of her sister, Mrs. Edwards.
Letters by Mrs. Edwards are very rare and the seven in
this collection were written during March and April, 1862,
from the White House where she had gone to be with her
sister following the death of Willie Lincoln. Six of the letters
are addressed to her daughter, Julia Edwards Baker, and the
seventh is to Edward Lewis Baker, Sr., Julia's husband- grand-
parents of Commander Baker.
David J.Baker, Sr., was appointed to the United States
Senate by Governor Ninian Edwards following the death of
John McLean. His term lasted from November 12 to Decem-
ber 11, 1830 when the legislature elected John M. Robinson.
Baker left Kaskaskia on November 17 and arrived in Wash-
ington early in December. The winter of 1830-1831 was
famous as the season of the "Deep Snow" in Illinois but Baker
avoided it by staying in Washington until the following Feb-
ruary. The sixty-six letters by him in this collection were
written to his wife while he was away from Kaskaskia."

Here's a picture of these similar looking, but very much different gloves:



So, conceivably, while the ALPLM lost the Ford's Theatre gloves in the Taper collection, they should still have their own set of gloves from this donation in 1956.