GDG- from whose pious hand

Dennis Lawrence denlaw at fone.net
Wed Oct 3 09:49:44 CDT 2007


Washington, D.C. October 3, 1861
Inscription on Photograph Given to Mrs. Lucy G. Speed [1]

For Mrs. Lucy G. Speed, from whose pious hand I accepted the present of an 
Oxford Bible twenty years ago. A. LINCOLN


[1]   The photograph is now owned by Mrs. Elise C. Railey, Louisville, 
Kentucky. Mrs. Speed was the mother of Joshua F. Speed, whom Lincoln 
visited in August and September, 1841.




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