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Your picture presented by Mr. Lutz is, in the main, very good. From a line across immediately above the eye-brows, downward it appears to me perfect. Above such line I think it is not so good,---that is, while it gives perhaps a better fore-head, it is not quite true
to the original. If you were present I could tell you wherein, but I can not well do so on paper. The next best thing I suppose would be to carefully study a photograph Yours truly A LINCOLN
[1] ALS, NN. No communication from Elijah C. Middleton has been found, but his firm (Middleton, [Hines] Strabridge & [D. C.] Fabronius) were lithographers at Cincinnati, Ohio, who published a chromolithograph of Lincoln in the autumn of 1864. Mr. Lutz has not been identified.