Items signed by Lincoln, Jefferson, Einstein and more will be auctioned by University Archives Two-page letter handwritten and signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, regarding the transportation of troops by rail in the Civil War (est. $20,000-$25,000). WILTON, CONN .- An exceptional handwritten four-page presidential address signed by Thomas Jefferson and directed to the Cherokee Nation in 1806, a spectacular one-page document written and signed by Albert Einstein regarding his theories on gravity and relativity, and a two-page letter handwritten and signed by ...