Lincoln's Bushy Lock of Hair Wrapped in Bloodied Telegram up for Online Auction

This is one macabre auction: A lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair, wrapped in a bloodstained telegram about his 1865 assassination, is up for sale. Measuring roughly 2 inches long, the bushy lock of hair was removed during Lincoln’s postmortem examination after he was fatally shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth. Next day, at the postmortem, when a lock of hair, clipped from near the Presidents left temple, was given to Dr. Todd finding no other paper in his pocket he wrapped the lock, stained with blood or brain fluid, in this telegram and hastily wrote on it in pencil: Hair of A. Lincoln. RR Auction said it vouches for the authenticity of the lock and telegram, in part based on a 1945 letter written by Dr. Todd’s son, James Todd.