LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President . Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, [Washington, D.C.], 6 June 1864. Five lines plus signature and date-line on the back of a secretarial copy of a letter of Lincoln to Secretary of War Stanton dated 23 December 1862. 1 page, 8vo, 208 x 125 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 in.), integral blank, with an early envelope labeled : "Copy of the President's letter." The letter and endorsement written on pages 1 and 4 of a four-page sheet. In fine condition. LINCOLN GRANTS A MOTHER'S REQUEST: A MARINE CORPS APPOINTMENT FOR HER SON In his 23 December 1862 letter to Stanton, which survives only in the present handwritten copy, Lincoln had written: "Mrs. Morris wife of General Morris, Fort McHenry, has two sons in the War and now asks a 2nd. Lieutenancy in the Army for the third. See her a moment, and you will probably feel like obliging her, and if so make the appointment not in violation of your rule, but as my direction." When this copy of his letter was sent to him, a year and a half later, as a reminder of his promise to secure an appointment for the young man, Lincoln wrote upon it: "I am quite willing for Mrs. Morris' son to be appointed to the Marine Corps if the Sec of the Navy [War is crossed out!] can make it convenient...." Not in Collected Works , ed. R.P. Basler.
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President . Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, [Washington, D.C.], 6 June 1864. Five lines plus signature and date-line on the back of a secretarial copy of a letter of Lincoln to Secretary of War Stanton dated 23 December 1862. 1 page, 8vo, 208 x 125 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 in.), integral blank, with an early envelope labeled : "Copy of the President's letter." The letter and endorsement written on pages 1 and 4 of a four-page sheet. In fine condition. LINCOLN GRANTS A MOTHER'S REQUEST: A MARINE CORPS APPOINTMENT FOR HER SON In his 23 December 1862 letter to Stanton, which survives only in the present handwritten copy, Lincoln had written: "Mrs. Morris wife of General Morris, Fort McHenry, has two sons in the War and now asks a 2nd. Lieutenancy in the Army for the third. See her a moment, and you will probably feel like obliging her, and if so make the appointment not in violation of your rule, but as my direction." When this copy of his letter was sent to him, a year and a half later, as a reminder of his promise to secure an appointment for the young man, Lincoln wrote upon it: "I am quite willing for Mrs. Morris' son to be appointed to the Marine Corps if the Sec of the Navy [War is crossed out!] can make it convenient...." Not in Collected Works , ed. R.P. Basler.
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