UK Car boot bargain could be letter by Abraham Lincoln
An amateur historian believes he has unearthed a priceless letter written by the former American president Abraham Lincoln – after buying it for £1 at a car boot sale.
Kenneth Anderson-Jones, 75, found the dusty and dirt-encrusted framed document in a pile of bric-a-brac and was intrigued.
When he got it home he cleaned it up to find it was a letter written in 1856 by Lincoln giving Lt Gen Ulysses S Grant total command of the United States army, a move that led to victory in the American Civil War.
Yesterday his nephew took the letter to the auctioneer Sotheby’s to have its authenticity checked. The American Library of Congress, which keeps official documents, said it did not hold a copy of the letter and was keen to examine Mr Anderson-Jones’s find.
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