 Image caption The collection, including the lock of hair at bottom, raised $803,889 
 
 A collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia has been sold at an auction in Dallas, fetching more than $800,000. The letter sold at auction... (Associated Press) 
 
 This images provided by Heritage Auctions shows a set nicknamed "The Martyr, The Villain and The Avenger" which sold for $30,000 Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, at a Historical Americana auction in Dallas,... (Associated Press) 
 
 This images provided by Heritage Auctions shows a lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair, removed by Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes shortly after Lincoln was shot, which sold for $25,000 Saturday, Jan. 24,... (Associated Press) 
 
 This images provided by Heritage Auctions shows a blood-stained linen swatch from Lincoln’s death bed, that went to auction Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, at a Historical Americana auction in Dallas, Texas.... (Associated Press) 
 
 The Donald P. Dow collection brought top bids totaling $803,889, doubling expectations, said Eric Bradley, spokesman for Dallas-based Heritage Auctions. He said his father had started collecting because of his interest in the Civil War and military history "but then he became interested in Lincoln and the assassination". The lock of hair, taken by Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes shortly after Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, sold for $25,000. Don Ackerman, from Heritage Auctions, told the Associated Press that the Booth letter had raised more because "the public was so disgusted by Booth's atrocity that most all letters, signatures and documents mentioning him were destroyed after Lincoln's death, making any that survive 150 years later exceedingly rare and valuable". A letter signed by his assassin John Wilkes Booth sold for $30,000 and his military arrest warrant made $21,250.
– A lock of hair taken from Abraham Lincoln's head by Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes soon after the president had been assassinated sold for $25,000 at a Texas auction—$5,000 less than a buyer paid for a letter from assassin John Wilkes Booth. The sale of a gallery owner's 300-item collection of Lincoln memorabilia fetched more than $800,000 on Saturday, more than double what Heritage Auctions had predicted, although an 1862 letter in which the president admitted the Civil War was not going well remained unsold, reports the BBC. Booth boasts about his acting career in the letter he wrote to a friend in 1861, which fetched such a high price because the "public was so disgusted by Booth's atrocity that most all letters, signatures and documents mentioning him were destroyed after Lincoln's death, making any that survive 150 years later exceedingly rare and valuable," a Heritage Auctions director explains to the AP. Other items in the sale included Booth's military arrest warrant, bloodstained linen from Lincoln's deathbed, and an 1864 letter signed by Lincoln authorizing a prisoner-of-war swap involving the son of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.