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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President . Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, REFFERING TO HIS BODYGUARD AND FRIEND WARD A. LAMON, n.p. [Washington, D.C.?], 9 March 1863. 5 lines plus signature and date-line, written on a rectangular portion of an envelope (addressed to Lamon in an unknown, probably female, hand), 67 x 74mm. (25/8 in. x 2 7/8 in.), neatly pasted into an autograph album, oblong 4to, 100 x 172 mm. (3 7/8 x 6 7/8 in., black morocco, upper cover gilt-lettered "Autographs," spine defective. (For other contents, see list below). LINCOLN AND A FAVOR FOR A "LADY-FRIEND" OF WARD LAMON, HIS BODYGUARD "Can anything be done for this Lady-friend of Marshall Lamon? I do not see how. A Lincoln. " Regarding this cryptic note, Basler writes: "The only clue to the lady mentioned is an extract from a letter received from Miss Maria A. Donnelly of Martinsburg, Virginia, Ward A. Lamon, dated March 11, 1863, giving information as to conditions in Richmond from the sister of Miss Donnelly, recently released from imprisonment there..." Published in Basler 6:128 (from a photographic copy in the Illinois State Library, Springfield, Illinois). PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE ALBUM: Approximately 170 signatures and inscriptions, most on album leaves, a few laid in: INCLUDING THREE FUTURE PRESIDENTS: U.S. Grant ("Yours truly," dated 19 February 1868), Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson (portion of a document, dated Washington, 14 October 1868), J.A. Garfield (as Congressman), William P. Seward, George B. McClellan, Winfield Scott, Frank P. Blair, Salmon P. Chase, Edwin M. Stanton, Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior J.D. Cox, General Irvin McDowell, John G. Fremont, W.L. Marcy, Schuyler Colfax, General W.T. Sherman, Adjutant General E.D. Townsend, N.P. Banks, W.P. Rosecrans, Philip H. Sheridan, W.P. Fessenden, G.K. Warren, George H. Thomas (the Rock of Chickamauga), Martin Van Buren (a free frank, clipped), Admiral D.D. Porter, Ben Perley Poore, Cornelius Cole, Benjamin Franklin Wade, Charles Sumner, Lyman Trumbull, O.P. Morton, John A. Logan David Davis General Edward Canby, John S. Worden, Commodore, U.S.N. (1869), William T. Adams ("Oliver Optic"), George S. Boutwell, O.O. Howard, Horace Porter (author of Campaigning with Grant ), O.E. Babcock (Grant's aide), Lorenzo Thomas