CONTENTS
F nt i p gfe
o t ait of Maj o L ambe t
William Ha ison Lam be t b y Gen J as G ant Wilson
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The Sp i it of Maj o Lambe t s Qu es t b y M r F ed e ic k
T evo Hill
Maj o Lambe t as a L inco ln Collec to by M J udd Stewa t 3
A Ch istian Gentleman by Ju
dg e Daniel F ish
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Maj o William H Lambe t by M r F ede i ck H Mese e
App ec iat ions f om Thacke ay s Daughte
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Le tte f om M Horac e White l at e Edito E ni ng P t
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Maj o Lambe t f om the Philadelphia L dg
Maj o W H La be t f om the Philad e lphia P
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A L incoln and Tha cke ay Collec to f om the B k L
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T ibute of the Loyal Legion of Pe nnsy l v ania
Lambe t B ibliog aphy and L ist of Soc i eti es
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W I LL I AM HARRI SON LAMBERT
BY J AM E S G RAN T W IL S ON
I n the autumn of 1 907 som e two s core adm irers of
Abraham Lin coln met together at the F i fth Av enue
Hotel New Yor k and organized a society to be known
as T HE L IN COLN F ELLO W S H IP The membership con
sisted chiefly of collec tors of Lincolniana and Major
William H Lambert of Philadelphia w a s v ery properly
and unanimously elected first president of the new
asso c iation he being the most c elebrated of that numer
ou s class now numbering more than fi v e hundred in
the United States The Fellowship also included a
number of those who had written more or les s concern
ing the extraordinary American who is the gentlest
m emory of the New Wor ld
At the first annual dinner of the S oc iety held at
Delmonico s New York Major La mbert presided as
he did at all the annual banquets which followed at the
same place and always on the anniversa ry of the Martyr
President s birth On another of these pleasant occa
sions the Fellowship presented Major Lambert with a
handsome Lincoln medal designed by Roine 1 n com
memoration of the hundredth anniversary of the day
of his bi r th in that a nnus m i ra b i l i s 1 809 in whi ch year
were also born Gladstone Tennyson Darwin Holmes
and a host of other great heirs of fame The first vi c e
president of the Fellowship also presented the Major
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centennial badge a duplicate of another recei v ed by
President Roosevelt fr om the State of entucky when
he and the pres ent writer deli v ered addresses at the
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Lincoln Farm Centennial celebration of February the
1 2 th I oo o
For almost half a century Major Lambert had been
a collector of Lincolniana having first been inspired to
take up the pleasant pursuit by recei v ing a gift
from
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his father
of
a
copy
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Life
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During the last two decades pr eceding his
death on Satur day morning J une I 1 9 1 2 I occasionally
had an opportunity of adding some acceptable Lincoln
items to his lar ge collection but the greatest service of
this char acter in his judgment was acqui r ing for him at
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a cost of s i "hundr ed dollars the lar ge blood stained
lock of hair c ut fr om the President s head when the
surgeon was examining the wound made by the assassin s
bullet I t was given to Doctor Taft an army surgeon
among the first to reach the victim and who was assist
ing the chief sur geon in charge Taft s s on offered the
precious relic to me and I secur ed it for the Major who
deemed it his most pr ecious Lincoln treasure for look s
of his hair a r e more di fficult to obtain "than those of
Washington I t is preserved in a handsome substantia l
gold box with an appropr iate inscription
Major Lamber t presented the most unselfish attitude
of any collector that I have ever known His i nc om
parable Lincoln and Thackeray treasures were always
at the ser vice of others as well as his unusual knowledge
of the writings and familiarity with the career of the
American statesman and the English author Here and
now I wish to bear testimony to the fact that my friend
never failed to clear up any point connected with Lin
coln or Thackeray about which I was in doubt When
Lambert lear ned in 1 90 2 “that I was pr eparing two
octavo volumes entitled Thackeray in the United
States 1 8 5 2 3 1 8 5 5
he at once invited me to come
to Germantown and see if something could not be dis
cov er ed i h his collection of Titmarsh drawings that
would be useful to illustrate my work The result of
that delightful v isit may be seen by the following lines
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which appeared in the first volum e when the book was
published a year later :
DEDI CAT ED To
MAJO R W ILLIAM H LAM BER T
T O WH O S E UNRI VALLED C OLLE C T ION O F TH A C "
E RAYANA
TH E AU TH OR I S C H IE FLY INDEB T ED
F OR TH E ILLU S T RA T ION S C ON T AINED IN TH I S W OR "
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Early in the past year several appeals reached Major
Lambert urging him to loan a por tion of his Thackeray
tr easures to di fferent centennial exhibitions to be given
in London I n mentioning these
applications
all
of
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which were declined he wrote : AS we cannot possibly
have a Thackeray cen tennial dinner at Delmonico s or
elsewhere in New Yor k in july when the city is deserted
and you and I are among the mountains what do you
think of an exhibit of my Thackeray collection at the new
Publi c Library in the autumn when your people have
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of
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tion you may offer it to the author ities
The c olle ction
w a s proffered and promptly ac c epted by Doctor Billings
but befor e the autumn ar rived I was inform ed that
Major Lambert must withdraw his Offer for the present
a s a wealthy young gentleman had persuaded him to
name a pri c e for his entire colle ction
Many months passed and the prospective purchaser
with his father on thei r way home from Europe took
passage for New York in the ill fated Titanic and both
perished in that terrible tragedy of the sea Had young
Harry Widener reached Philadelphia he would have
acquired the wonderful Thackeray collection for a
quarter of a million dollars
Two months
later Major Lamber t passed away painlessly and peace
fully under the roof of his o wn beautiful home a spa
c i ou s stone m ansion
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Of som e i "scor e por traits and o ther i ll u s trations contained in the t w vo l
umes almost one ha lf the number w ere k indl y contr ibuted by M ajor Lambert
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booklover of twenty six by his will bequeathed his col
lection of r are books to his a lm a m a te r and that his
gr andfather is erecting a memorial edifice at Cambr idge
at the cost of a million dollar s to contain his valuable
gift and also the library of Harvar d University which
h a s outgr own the present building )
Catalogues of the Lincoln and Thacker ay collections
are being prepared by the Lambert executors and will
soon be pr inted but they have not yet announced
what disposition will be made of the Major s treasures
numbering many thousands A single item of sermons
preached on the assassination of Pr esident Lincoln ex
c e e d s th r ee hund r ed each one bound S eparately
Second only to his admi r ation for the statesman and
emancipator Lincoln and the novelist and poet Thack
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was the high esteem in which Major L ambert
held the gallant and loyal Vi r ginian Gen Geor ge H
Thomas in whom he saw many resemblances to Wash
i ng ton both mental and physical The Rock of Chick
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w a s the subject of sever al addr esses delivered
before different military organizations as will be seen
by the Major s bibliogr aphy which follows this paper
I t will also be obser ved by r eference to this same list on
another page that he was the author of two interesting
Lincoln addr esses one on the immor tal Gettysburg
address "the other and Lambert"s last public utter anc e
entitled The Faith of Lincoln
This latest and per
haps most valuable of his addr esses was delivered to
a Pr esbyterian society and in the Second Presbyterian
Chur ch in Germantown of which Lambert was a mem
b e r and vice president of the board of tr ustees a memo
rial ser vice was held in his honor on Sunday afternoon
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As an army comrade of the Civil War with whom
for many years the writer had most agr eeable associa
tions and Shar ing in Major Lambert s appr eciation of
Lincoln and Thacker ay he takes pleasure in c ontr i b u
ting this brief tribute to the memory of a Christian
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gentleman notable for courage and cour tesy as a patri
otic soldier a good and useful citizen and a kind hearted
and faithful friend to whom Bassanio s words applied
to Antonio the Venetian mer chant are equally a pp li
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The best nd i t i n d and unwea i ed p i it
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I never met a more lovable man than Major Lam
bert At the last Lincoln Fellowship dinner where we
s a t S ide by side he told the story of how he became a
Lincoln admi r er soon after the close of the War
and
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allusion to our advancing years r emarked : I do not
discover that
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downstairs
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Lowell
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at my age He was then sixty nine We also had some
pleasant conv ersation about Tha ckeray and he con
s u lt e d me about printing a small number of copies for
pri v ate circulation of some two s core unpublished letters
written by the great novelist to h i s particular friend
Mrs Brook fie ld The Major also expressed much i n
t e r e s t in an article for the Thackeray c entennial which
I pr oposed to pr epare and he pr offered the use of a
por tr ait he had r ecently discovered and acqui r ed to
accompany the paper I t was r epr oduced in colors and
appeared as the fr ontispiece of the Ce n tu ry M a g a z i n e
for july I OI I and is interesting from the fact that it is
the only oil pai nting of Thackeray made in this country
I t was painted by james B Lambdin o f Philadelphia
dur ing one of the author s two lecture tours in the
United States The ar tist w as a member of the Quaker
City coter ie w h o entertained Thackeray and the picture
was for a long period in the possession of the late joseph
Harrison of Philadelphia after whose recent decease
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in or der to enjoy good fame for that had been his heri
tage ever since attaining to manhood I n all the varied
relations of life his career and conduct had been of
such a character as to escape c ensur e or cr iticism The
beautiful words of Thackeray in speaking of a valued
fr iend who fell on the field of battle may be most
approp
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that when he went to Heaven the angels must have
turned out and presented arms
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THE SP I RI T OF MAJ OR LAMBERT 8 QUEST
BY FRED ERI C"T R E VOR H ILL
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Co llect i ng is apt to be a mere fad or a pasti m e which
combines the charm of the chase with the lure of fina n
But som etimes it is inspired by an unselfish
c i a l gain
devotion to the subject matter Then it becomes an art
and an art of high edu c ational value
I t was in this spirit that Major Lambert began his
great collection of Lincolniana and his reverent touch
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and scholarly instinct made it what it is a rare c on
tr i b u t i on to American history
Major Lambert was a loyal and untiring servant of
the Republic in m ore ways than one but he builded
better than he knew when he undertook to assemble and
pr eserv e the hi stor i cal data bearing upon the life o f
Abraham Lin coln This was I venture to say his
greatest publi c servi c e That he himself regarded his
collection as a publi c trust was apparent from his
generous attitude towards all students who sought
a ccess to h i s shelves He knew no delight so keen as
sharing the enjoyment of h i s treasures with others
He had none of the petty jealousy or miserliness of the
professional c ollector To hoard and hide h is d i s c ov
er ies w as utterly foreign to his nature Of course h e was
entirely human and made no secret of the fact that he
shared the thrill of the hunter in tracking his quarry
and the exultation of bagging the same But it w a s
not the mere love of possession that dominated him
I t w a s the hope that his collection would aid in handing
down to posterity a true impres sion of the first American
Some
eight
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writer
was
informed
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in his possession a c er tain document bearing upon Lin
coln s car eer at the Bar With no other i nf ormation
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addressed
simply
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docum ent Somewhat to his surprise the letter reached
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its intended destination and in a few days a note was
r eceived from Majo r Lambert stating that he had the
document and that he would be glad to Show it at a
futur e date With character istic modesty the Major
failed to state that he had any other documents in his
possession and the pr esent writer was qu i te ignorant of
that fact
On the day appointed he journeyed to Philadelphia
intending to examine the document in question between
tr ains and r etur n to New Yor k Arr iving at Major
Lamber t s house he found that the librar y table h a d
been clear ed and upon it S ystematically ar ranged wer e
all of the papers in the Major s collection bearing upon
Lincoln s legal car eer
The V isitor s astonishment can be better imagined
than described but when he found hims e lf utter ly u n
able to make mor e than a casual examination of the
mater ial spread befor e him and ventur ed to suggest a
second inspection h e was met more than half way by
his host who virtually placed the enti r e collection at
his disposal
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I t was in this br oad minded lar ge hearted Spirit that
Major Lambert administered his self cr eated trust He
was a patr iot i n the best sense of the term a well"
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rounded scholar and a Gentleman of the Old School
That his collection m a y not be scattered but may be
pr eser ved as a memor ial to its owner and an inspi r ation
to other collectors is the hope of one who was honored
by his fr iendship
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MAJ OR LAMBERT AS A L INCOLN
COLLECTOR
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should do unto you even so do ye also unto them it
seems to me exp r esses Major Lamber t s rule of action
toward r ival collectors I t cer tainly was his attitude
toward that coterie of Lincoln collectors who knew him
At one of the
a s President of the Lincoln Fellowship
Fellowship dinner s he refer red to me as his hated ri v al
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and within a week gave me his hated rival
a rare
pamphlet with his compliments
Early in 1 00 5 I sent the Major a copy of Doctor
Snodgrass ser mon on Lincoln and this paved the way
to an acquaintance and at last a friendly intimacy of
greater worth than many Lincoln pamphlets For a
long time ou r acquaintance was kept up entirely by c or
r espondence but after Major Lamber t became a trustee
of the Mutual Life he usually stopped at my office either
before or after each weekly meeting of the trustees to
compare notes and rarely missed at least calling by
telephone
Major Lambert was a born collector On one occa
sion he told me that he fir st star ted to collect books
about the Holy Land and after exhausting that line of
endeavor he bought Boyd s collection on Lincoln
B oyd s collection was one of the earlies t formed and
this will explain how Major Lambert had so many items
that o ther collectors could not find He got them early
After the fire in 1 006 which damaged his Lincoln col
lection particularly with respect to the reli cs of Lincoln
and the books formerly belonging to Lincoln the Major
was undecided whether to continue collecting or no t I
wrote hi m that he could have any items in my collection
that would replace damaged or“des troyed items and sent
hi m among others a copy of Lincoln a nd the I llinois
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Central Rail r oad
This seemed to decide the matter
and under date of J une 2 8 1 006 he wr ote that he would
consider the I llinois Centr al Rail r oad item the found a
tion of the new collection as Holland s Life of Lincoln
given him by his father just after the War was con
s i d e r e d the cor nerstone of the fi r st collection
I n looking ove r the many letter s r eceived from the
Major fr om November 1 00 5 to May 1 01 2 ther e is
the most inter esting V iew of the kindly collector Most
of the letter s a r e about acquisitions s e nd i ng items or
acknowledging those sent him but the unfailing gentle
ness of the man is shown in ever y letter I n 1 008 I began
issuing a consolidated want list covering the five prin
Per iodically I was advised of addi
c i p a l collections
tions by each Of the collector s and would then get out a
new sheet S howing how each collector stood The Major
r ema r ked one day that my consolidated want list beat
a Wall Str eet ticker for inter est and he never failed to
analyze the standing of the collections One of his
summaries was as follows :
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of these I sent to the Major and he rather objected to
my giving him so expensi v e an item but he soon
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even by sending me a copy of the Pr a e s i d i c i d e which
had been through the fire and had the back burned off
Every leaf had been mounted
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and the ins cription A souv enir of the fire of 1 006
makes it doubly precious
I n the Lincoln home in" Springfield is a copy of the
first printing of Lincoln s House Divided Against It
self Speech When I visited Springfield and saw
this I naturally tried to persuade Mrs Edwards to let
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me have it but no ar gument would pr ev ail i t had been
promised to Major Lambert The dear old man used
to accuse me of being a trust an octopus and all sorts
of things when I would tell him of som e far off friend
sending me an item
Notwithstanding the Major s kindly atter y in say
ing he was afraid my collection would surpass his if a
definitive list was prepar ed there is I think no question
but that h i s collection of Lincoln books and pamphlets
surpasses any other collection not only in its com
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in
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rare
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analysis made by the Major S howed he lacked 8 6 of the
items listed by Fish in 1 006 and that a combination of
his own collection with Fish M c Cle lla n Oakleaf and
my o wn could be made lacking only 2 6 of the Fish items
I n autograph letters Major Lambert s collection is
without a rival although he did not exerc ise the
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The last time I s a w the Major about
three weeks before h i s death he
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my strength some
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and take it And so he lived
a kindly generous gentle friend with no jealousy but
with S incer e pleasure
in
the
success
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his
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he would say : Well there is only one other person I
kn ow that I d rather have get a r are item than your
self To me h i s friendship was like a benediction The
last letter I had from him was May 1 0 1 0I 2 three weeks
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Thanks f the cop ies of the Catalogue of Po t aits of L incoln
and f the wo k you have pe fo med I have not been in N ew
Yo k inc e I last saw you and as you know I have neglec ted a
customa y fault of m ine ac knowledging the cop ies so kindly sent
I was shocked to lea n of the fi in M M Le ll n
home of whic h I have seen no account save that stating the col
lec tion was saved I hope late epo ts ve ify the statement How
an"iously he must have awaited oppo tunity to e"amine I c an
sympathi"e with him I hop e you will be spa ed simila t ial
With kindest ega ds
Sinc e ely you s
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A CHR I ST IAN GENTLEMAN
BY DANI EL F I S H
One s hobby if the beast be of an amiable breed
carries its rider by pleasant paths to many a hospitable
door The kindliest service ever rendered by mine was
in bringing me into relati ons with Major William H
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Lambert He w as indeed of the salt of the earth keen
business man patr i otic citizen painstaking scholar self
s a c r i fi c i ng fr iend and withal a genial follower of whole
some fads Su ch a man without fads may well be
admi r ed ; with them he is sure to be loved
Soon after beginning to gather up the b ooks and
pamphlets pertaining to Abr aham Lincoln I learned that
Major Lamber t owned a super b collection of them
Naturally I applied to him for advice and assistance
A long cor respondence followed and innumerable kind
nesses all so unstintedly and gr aciously given that
gratitude speedily ripened into affection We had few
oppor tunities for meeting but once for a whole precious
day a day of mor e than twenty four hours I was a
guest in h i s home with that unr ivalled stor e of Lincoln
memor abilia spread ar ound us in delightful profusion
That visit with two or three br ief inter views elsewhere
are cherished memor ies and big bundles of h i s explicit
and helpful letters are as r ifts in the cloud that has
gather ed between u s
I t i s a joy to tell of his goodness to one i n the far
outer ci r cle of his friendships Once he sent m e a packet
of Lincoln pamphlets duplicates from his great collee
tion Among them w a s one of a rare edition which I
had despai r ed of ever possessing I knew that it had
sold in the book mar t for a monstrous pr ice Fear ing
that he had overlooked i ts money value I offered to
res tore it The copy was slightly defective He begged
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in exchange I t is worth while being a collector just to
know how to appr eciate so beautiful a cour tesy
The dear Major had mor e than one hobby but only
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His noble sp i it lived f t uthfulness
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mine will ever associate with h i s name I t h a s ever
been a happiness to me to feel that my father s memory
was still alive in him as while I live Major Lamber t s
will be alive for me and for my husband and childr en
after me
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To Gener al Wilson Lady Ritchie wr ote : When I
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Major William H Lamber t war veter an former city
official and a widely known collector of manuscr ipts the
value of which is untold died at his home 3 3 0 West
J ohn son Street Germantown yesterday He was 70
years Old
For year s he held an unique position among learned
men in this city He had a wide acquaintance not only
among those in art and literary ci r cles but numbered
in h i s ci r cle of fr iends statesmen scientists and others
in public life
Major Lamber t was bor n in Reading Pennsylvania
May 1 0 1 8 4 2 He was educated in the public schools
of this city and was gr aduated fr om the Philadelphia
High School in 1 8 5 0 as the valedictorian of his class
He took up the study of law but when the Civil
Wa r broke out he left his desk and his books and went
to the fr ont He enlisted in the Fifteenth Regiment
Pennsylvania Caval ry and ser ved in the Pennsylvania
and Mar yland campaigns that involved the battles in
Lee s invasion He par ticipated in the b attles of An
t i e t a m and those occurr ing around that per iod of th e
w a r and after wards accompanied his r egiment to Louis
ville
entucky
On November 2 4 1 8 6 2 he w a s appointed first lieu
tenant and on J anuar y 1 6 1 86 4 was commissioned
captain of his company each promotion being made
because of br aver y in battle and the meritor ious p e r
for m a nc e of duty in danger I n May o f the same year
fur ther honor s came to him becaus e of his re cor d for
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J ohn W Geary On March 1 3 1 8 6 5 he was brevetted
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Upon his return fr om the war Major Lamber t took
an active inter est in public affairs and was a frequent
contr ibutor to the curr ent liter ature of the day on lead
ing events He was an a r dent admirer of Lincoln whom
he had personally known and became an eager collector
o f letter s and other mater ial associated with the g r eat
Emancipator No man in the countr y obtained a closer
V iew of the life deeds and thoughts of the war Pr esident
Major Lambert also Specialized as a collector of
Thackerayana and this gave him a reputation on two
continents a s he possessed a collection of Thackeray
manuscr ipts and other mater ial admitted to be unsur
passed gathered after much tr avel and infinite search
Hi s Lincoln collection was vi r tually complete for it
i s believed to contain ever y life o f the Emancipator
published and in addition contains an extensive collee
tion of portr a i ts of the Civil War President The gem
of the collection however is the book in which Lincoln
as a young lawyer kept an account of his fees This was
one of the Lincoln items which did not fall victim to the
fl ames which made such havo c in Major Lambert s
library in the summer of 1 006
The fir e destroyed the desk and the chair that for
merly wer e in Lincoln s office in Spr ingfield and many
of the books that had been owne d by Lincoln
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enough r emained to make the collection still the finest
of its kind in existence
I n monetar y value however it is believed that the
Thacker ay collection was the gr eater and while no esti
mate of it can very well be made it is gener ally believed
that it would bring a great deal in excess of 352
if
it came into the market Not Only does this collection
contain every publication that Thacker ay was con
ne c t e d with including the rare files of the newspaper
which the novelist for a time published but it also con
tains many manuscripts of the great novelist The fame
of the Thackeray collec tion is known throughout the
English reading world and all the later wr iters o n
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Thacker ay and his works have been compelled to resor t
to the Lamber t collection for much valuable mater ial
The Thackeray letter s a r e innumer able and many of
them unpublished : ther e a r e fr agments of sev er al of the
longer novels and complete manuscr ipts of sever al of
the shor ter pieces and the Christmas books I n addition
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The fire which burned a part of Major Lambert s
library consumed some of the Thackerayana but while
the por trait by Eyre Crow was destr oyed and one or
two other relics the manuscripts and the first editions
were saved
As a lecturer Major Lambert won a reputation that
brought engagements from many cities and made his
name familiar in many States His favorite themes
related to the Civil Wa r and the meaning of the great
struggle I t was in these lectur e tour s that he found
much that after war ds reached his collection of Lincoln
iana Ever ywhere he met men who had been associated
with the war President and it was the stories related of
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not only stimulated the desire to collect mater ial but
to wr ite what“ is consider ed Major" Lambert s best
liter ar y wor k The Faith of Lincoln
From Major Lamber t was gathered very much of
the mater ial that entered into the Lincoln literatur e of
the per iod Historians and others from a gr eat distance
came t o s e e the collection and delve into the facts that
were there contained
Major Lambert while he spent much time among
his rare manuscr ipts of the Emancipator and the great
English author was far fr om being a liter ary recluse
He was fond of the society of men and was a familiar
figur e in the Union League of which he was a member
and in financial circles He was a di r ector of the Phila
delphia Trust Safe Deposit and I nsur ance Company ;
a director of the Gira r d Company and vice pr esident
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and manager of the Savings Trust Soc iety of Germ an
town
I n 1 802 he was appointed a member of the Board of
Public Charities and r ender ed efficient service not only
as an official but because of his inter est in the people
to whom the board ministered
His association with the Union League dates back
many years He was a di r ector from 1 00 1 to 1 004 and
also held the position of secretar y He was a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic Pennsylvania Com
mandery of the Militar y Order of the Loyal Legion and
the Penn sylvania Historical So c iety
He was genial in manner courteous at all times in
h i s treatment of those with whom he came in contact
and won many friends b y his manner and because of
the great fund of inform ation he p oss e sse sd
Very much interest attaches to the pr obable disposi
ti on of the great collec tion in the Lambert library I t
is not known however whether these will be dev ised
to relatives or to some publi c instituti o n
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Major William H Lambert soldier philanthr opist
lawyer business man and collector whose death was
announced yes terday rounded and filled a wide scope
of citizenship He was trained as a lawyer and at the
opening of the Civil Wa r posses sed the re la t i ons i n life
which most would have felt entitled tO him to begin
with a commission I nstead he pr eferr ed to enlist as
a pr ivate and r ose step by step often by promotion on
the field to the r ank of major and on the close of the
w a r he was in a staff position which gave him wide
administr ative exper ience He r etur ned to find it was
late to begin the practic e of law and he entered the
field of life insur ance when it was still new its traditions
to be cr eated its methods to be developed and its work
t o be saved from the mere soliciting of risks to a com
prehensive plan for br inging befor e the insur able of a
community the benefits of insur ance For near ly forty
year s he was active in this work built up without os
tentation and without clamor The business of his
agency steadily grew u nder his hands until he left it
o n reti r ing one of the lar gest in the countr y
Dur ing this wide wor k he found time to be active
first in pr ivate and later in public philanthropy i m
pr oving mater ially each institution i n whose manage
ment he shar ed He ear ly tur ned to the work of a col
lector an d devoted himself to two gr eat subjects the
life of Abr aham Lincoln and the wor k of Thackeray
Patiently thr ough years without heedless expenditur e
with tact and with ear ly p r escient knowledge of what
in time would become valuable he collected an ar ray
of objects pictu r es mementoes and wor ks relating to
both of these men such as was equal e d by only two o r
t h r e e p r i v a t e collectors and befor e part of h i s Lincoln
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material was destroyed by fire excelled by no public
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These broad vigorous intellectual and beneficial
activities made Major Lambert in his closing year s a
man serene trusted valued loved and in all the rela
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The death last summer of Major W H Lamber t
of Philadelphia r emoves fr om the elect list of book
collector s a char ming personality and a discriminating
and intelligent collector Major Lamber t was on the
staff of General J ohn W Gear y and fought through
the Civil Wa r His vo cation was manager of the
Philadelphia agency of the New York Mutual Life
I nsurance Company but his avocation was collecting
books autog raph letters and manuscr ipts by and r ela
ting to Abraham Lincoln and William Makepeace
Thacker ay
Major Lambert began to collect mater ial r elating
to Abr aham Lincoln immediately after the Civil Wa r
and it is gener ally conceded by all who r eally know
that h i s Lincoln collection was the gr eatest in this
countr y
Besides autograph letters and manuscripts he owned
all the lives of Lincoln all the funer al sermons printed
and accessible many per sonal r elics such as Lincoln s
wr iting desk used in his law office in Spr ingfield all
the known engr avings and photogr aphs and many
other items
Of Thacker ay it is well within the bounds of accu
racy to state that Major Lamber t s was the finest
collection extant even including that of Lady Richmond
Ritchie Thacker ay s daughter
I t is sometimes the par t of wisdom to be a prophet
rather than a follower and Major Lambert had the
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when quite a young man Although at no time a rich
man he once told the editor that he had bought
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he felt that the prices were so high that even he could
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discha ged f p omotion Novembe 4 8 6
F i s t L ieutenant and Adj utant Twenty seventh N ew J e sey
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Brevetted Maj o "S Vol unte ers Ma ch 3 8 6 5 for
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Awarded the Medal of Hono unde esolution of Cong es s
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The life of our late Companion and Commander
William H Lambert may well be remembered with
affectionate pride not only by his family b ut by that
large circle whose privilege it was to share his friend
ship and to have the knowledge of h i s faithful and
conscientious dis charge o f duty in the m any positions
which he filled during his honorable and ac tive c areer
Born in 1 84 2 he was a little over twenty years old when
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at his country s call he forsook the study of law and
on August 2 2 1 8 6 2 enlisted as a pr i vate in the Fifteenth
Pennsylvania Cavalry ( Anderson Cavalry) serving in
M aryland and Virginia during Lee s inv asion and par
Accompanying his
t i c i p a t i ng in the battle of Antieta m
command to Louisville entucky he was in the West
until November 2 4 1 8 6 2 when he was dis charged to
a cc ept a comm issi on November 2 7 1 8 6 2 as First
L i eutenant and Adjutant Twenty seventh New J ersey
I nfantry a nine months regiment which was attached
to the Ninth Corps of the Army of the Potom a c and
w a s present at the battle of Fredericksburg December
I n the spring of 1 8 6 3 h is regiment w as sent to
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entu cky and served with credit in that State until its
muster out in July 1 86 3
On July 2 5 1 8 6 3 he was appointed First L i eutenant
and Adjutant Thirty th i rd New J ersey I nfantry which
he ass i sted in recruiting and which hav ing been assigned
to the Eleventh Corps of th e Ar my of the Potomac
form ed a part of the“ force which under“Major General
Hooker Opened the Cracker Bl ockade and gave su ch
ti m ely help to the army of Major General Rosecrans
then besieged at Chattanooga Companion Lambert
too k part in the ser i es of battles around Chattanooga
when General Bragg w as so badly defeated and also in
the m arch to the relief of General Burnside fiercely
assailed at noxville by a large for c e under the com
m and of General Longstreet
On J anuary 1 6 1 8 64 he w as made Capta i n Com
pany A of h is regi m ent and in May 1 8 64 was a p
pointed Aid de Camp on the staff of General Geary
comm anding Second Di v isi o n ( the White Star Division)
of the Twentieth Corps (of the Army of the Cumber
land ) formed by the consolidation of the Eleventh and
Twelfth Corps of the Army of the Potomac He was
subsequently m ade Acting Assistant I nspector General
on the sam e staff and served with signal gallantry and
effic iency during the Atlanta Campaign and in Sher
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man s m ar ch to the s e a He w as one of that veteran
army whi ch passed before the President in the Gr and
Review at Washington which marked the close of the
War of the Rebellion
On the disbandment of Sherman s Army he was
assigned to duty on the staff of General Wilcox com
manding the Distr ict of Washington
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he was brevetted Major f“or gallant and meri
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and in J uly 1 8 6 5
w a s with his regiment mustered out Having tendered
his services to the Government in defence of P e nnsyl
vania after the expi r ati o n of one of his terms of duty
he was awarded a m edal of honor under the resolution
of Congress
Although born in Reading h i s parents removed to
Philadelphi a when he was quite young and he was
educated in its public schools and gr aduated from the
Central High School in 1 8 50 n March 1 8 66 he b e
came connec ted with the Mutual Life I nsurance Com
pany of New York and a partner in its management in
1 872
Hi s a ctive business life for nearly forty years was
closely identified with that corporation he having re
signed as i ts Pe nnsylvania m anager in 1 004 I ts mar
v e llous gro wth during that period is the best tribute to
the ability with which it w as conducted it having b e
come one of the thre e largest and strongest life insur ance
companies in the United States But in addition to the
heavy res ponsibilities whi ch this connection devolved
upon hi m he w as honored by appointments to positions
of high trust in connection with the adm inistration Of
the City s affairs He was made a member of the De
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I n that same year he w a s appointed to the Boar d of
City Trusts which manages a proper ty of enormous
value largely the result of bequests made by Stephen
Gir ar d and o ccupied that position until h i s death He
was one of the Trustees of the Free Library of Phila
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He was a member of Post 2 of the G A R of the
Union League of the Art and Penn Clubs and other
civic organizations and one of the Coun c il of the Hi s
tor i c a l Society of Pennsylvania
During his whole life he w a s a student of letters
and as a natural consequenc e of his military career
took Special interest in the literature of the War He
thus amassed an unique and invaluable collection bear
ing upon the lives of Abraham Lincoln and General
Geor ge H Thomas His Tha ckeray collection is equally
famous and it is a matter of profound regret that in a
fir e that took place a few years since serious loss and
damage occurr ed to both his Lincoln and Thacker ay
collections Companion Lambert was a forceful and
impressive speaker and was continually c alled upon
to deliver orations and addresses at important public
functions At the unveiling of monuments in our Na
t i ona l Cemeteries at the meetings of the Arm ies of the
Potomac and Cumber land at comm emorations of the
ser vices of our gre at generals Meade Hancock and
other s at the r ecur ring anni v ersar ies of the birth of
ou r marty r President Abraham Lincoln at the meet
ings of the Loyal Legion whenever it was felt that that
which was to be said S hould be fitly said Companion
Lamber t was of those c hosen to pay honor to ou r illus
tr i ou s dead
He was a member of the Comm andery since J an
uar y 1 4 1 880 was elected its J unior Vi c e Commander
May 4 1 88 7 and had completed a year of service as its
Commander in May last only a few weeks before his
death He was also a Representative from the Com
mandery at the fifth sixth eighth and ninth Qu a d re n
nial Congress of the Order I t is unnecessary to say
how devoted he w a s to its interests and how helpful
in the administr ation of its affairs He was known to us
all as a genial comr ade a faithful friend and a gallant
soldier and gentleman
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Companion Lambert was married October 1 5 1 8 74
to Herminia Van Haagen who with a son and three
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Reply to the toast Sherman s Army by Major
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Address before Post No 2 Department of P e nnsyl
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The American Navy an address by Willia m H
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Major General George H Thomas an address by
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Memorial Day oration of William H Lambert
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George Henry Thomas orati o n before the Society
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George Henry Thomas oration before the Society
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Major General Winfield Scott Hancock oration at
the National Cemeter y Gettysburg May 2 0 1 88 6 by
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Notes for speech at dinner O ctober 1 1 1 8 5 5 by
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Ameri c a Letter to W C Macready Forty Copies
pr ivately printed 2 0 pp large quarto half parchment
Philadelphia 1 8 06 Ornamental title page and b orders
and printed on but one side of pages
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Abraham Lincoln Commander “i n Chief of the
Army and Navy of the United States annual oration
delivered before the Society of the Army of the Potoma c
by William H Lambert at Pittsburg P a October 1 1
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Abraham Lincoln 1 800 1 000 Lincoln Literature
address by William H Lambert Brevet Major U S V
before the Commandery of the State of Pennsyl v ania
Military Order of the Loyal Legion Memorial Meeting
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Lambert Februar y 1 2 1 000 Lincoln the honest m an
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