Charles B. Lawrence, Galesburg, Illinois, letter to Abraham Lincoln
Description
Autograph letter signed. Recommendation of John J. Weed as assistant solicitor to the Court of Claims. With nine other endorsements including: William Kellogg, Richard Yates, Jesse K. DuBois, Shelby M. Cullom, Milton Hay, Ozias M. Hatch, William A. Grimshaw, and Mark W. Delahay. Includes addressed envelope. (1 page)
Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Lambert Civil War collection, March 1914.
Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Mark P. Robinson collection, February-March 1918.
Purchased from William K. Bixby, 1918.
Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Hale-Hunter sale, January 1917.
Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Huntington-Bixby sale, March 1, 1917.
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Rights
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Autograph letter signed. Recommendation of John J. Weed as assistant solicitor to the Court of Claims. With nine other endorsements including: William Kellogg, Richard Yates, Jesse K. DuBois, Shelby M. Cullom, Milton Hay, Ozias M. Hatch, William A. Grimshaw, and Mark W. Delahay. Includes addressed envelope.
Autograph letter signed. Recommendation of Reverend William K. Talbot for Hospital Chaplain at Columbus, Kentucky. Endorsed by Abraham Lincoln. (1 page)
Autograph note signed. Note regarding beef contractors on envelope with endorsements by officers of the Subsistence Office and Colonel A. Beckwith. With endorsement of Lincoln: "Submitted to the War Department, for Commissary General." (1 page)
Autograph letter signed. Lincoln acknowledges receipt of a copy of Sumner's speech "The Barbarism of Slavery." Bound with copies of engraved portraits of Sumner and Lincoln and photograph portraits of Sumner, copies of engravings of Sumner family residences, a typescript transcript of the letter, a typed explanation of the letter, and a printed chapter 23 from Life of Charles Sumner. (letter 1 page, other material 28 pages)
