President Lincoln supposedly sent his sincerest condolences to a grieving mother in the historic Bixby Letter on this day ... him to send his regards to Mrs. Lydia Bixby. Bixby of Boston was ...

The full text of President Abraham Lincoln’s letter to Civil War mother Lydia Bixby, who was thought to have lost five sons in battle: Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov 21, 1864. To Mrs. Bixby ...

Researchers at Aston University’s Centre for Forensic Linguistics tested 500 texts by Hay and 500 by Lincoln, before drawing the conclusion that the Bixby letter was written by the President’s ...

In November of 1864, a woman named Lydia Bixby received a letter from President Abraham Lincoln. He had been told that she had lost five sons to the then-ongoing Civil War. A Massachusetts state ...

In November 1864, a woman named Lydia Bixby received a letter purportedly written by President Abraham Lincoln telling her that her sons had died in the Civil War. But the correspondence ...

It also turns out Bixby was likely sympathetic to the Southern cause, and hated President Lincoln. Burlingame reports that the original letter was either destroyed by Bixby soon after receiving it ...

The letter is addressed to “Mrs. Bixby, Boston ... The letter, as was the president’s custom in his personal correspondence, is signed “A Lincoln.” “It is so beautifully written ...

A Dallas museum hopes a document found in its archives turns out to be an authentic government copy of a famous letter from Abraham Lincoln. The Bixby Letter was an eloquent letter in which the ...