The name of the new owner of historic manuscripts are not called. We know only that the purchaser was not present at auctions, and made a bet on the telephone. Money raised from the sale will be used to build a new building for one of the libraries in the state of New York, where in 1926 the manuscript of Abraham Lincoln.
The amount paid for the manuscript, was a record for an American historical document ever put up for auction. The previous record was set last year at Sotheby's and also owned the manuscript of Abraham Lincoln. Then dated 1864-m 16-year letter of U.S. President went under the hammer for 3.4 million dollars.
4-page manuscript of Lincoln's speech, which was sold at Christies's February 12, remained in the family of 16, the U.S. president until 1916. Then Abraham Lincoln's son Robert in gratitude gave the manuscript of Republican politicians from New York, John A. Dwight, who helped in the construction of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. In 1926, the widow of Dwight gave the manuscript Southworth Library in Dryden, New York State, where the document and kept still.