1909 2c Lincoln Centenary Issue, Production Ephemera. Group of items related to the production of the 1909 Lincoln stamps, including Jan. 2, 1909 telegram from President Theodore Roosevelt to Mrs. Saint Gaudens, widow of the artist whose bust served as the basis for the stamp design, asking permission to use photographs of the bust for the stamp, also carbon copy of a Roosevelt letter on the same subject, handwritten letter of reply from Mrs. Saint Gaudens granting permission, White House letter to Postmaster General George von L. Meyer forwarding Mrs. Saint Gaudens' reply, signed by the Secretary to the President, copy of message from Roosevelt to Congress proposing a bill to make the anniversary of Lincoln's birth a federal holiday (small tear), finally photograph of the Lincoln statue and a postcard of it franked by pair of No. 300 (edgewear), a fascinating group

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