拍品 96
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LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") as President to Secretary of War [Edwin M. Stanton], Washington D.C., 1 September 1864. 1 page, 8vo, "Executive Mansion" stationery, boldly scrawled endorsement by Stanton in blank area below Lincoln's signature. Fine.
LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") as President to Secretary of War [Edwin M. Stanton], Washington D.C., 1 September 1864. 1 page, 8vo, "Executive Mansion" stationery, boldly scrawled endorsement by Stanton in blank area below Lincoln's signature. Fine.

成交价 美元 16,450
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LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") as President to Secretary of War [Edwin M. Stanton], Washington D.C., 1 September 1864. 1 page, 8vo, "Executive Mansion" stationery, boldly scrawled endorsement by Stanton in blank area below Lincoln's signature. Fine.

成交价 美元 16,450
成交价 美元 16,450
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LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") as President to Secretary of War [Edwin M. Stanton], Washington D.C., 1 September 1864. 1 page, 8vo, "Executive Mansion" stationery, boldly scrawled endorsement by Stanton in blank area below Lincoln's signature. Fine.

ON THE DAY OF THE FALL OF ATLANTA, STANTON ANGRILY REJECTS AN APPOINTMENT URGED BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN

A letter written from the White House at a particularly crucial time; renominated by the Republican party in June, Lincoln thought it highly probable that he would lose the November election to McClellan and that the Democratic triumph would make the preservation of the Union highly doubtful. In fact, this letter is dated only a week and two days after his famous blind memorandum to his cabinet, concerning the election. Lincoln, still unaware of Sherman's victory at Atlanta, writes: "If his services can be made useful I shall be glad for the bearer Rev. Sanford A. Kingsberry to be appointed an Additional Pay Master. Mr. [William Pitt] Fessenden especially desires this, and I wish him to be obliged." Fessenden (1806-1869) an influential Republican Senator from Maine, had reluctantly agreed to replace Chase as Secretary of the Treasury in June 1864; at this time, with the 1864 elections approaching, Fessenden may have requested Kingsberry's appointment as a particular political favor from the President. In his typical fashion, Lincoln here recommends the appointment. Stanton's response, scrawled in an uncharacteristically large hand, forcefully indicates his extreme displeasure with Lincoln's request: "Not a proper appointment & no vacancy." Apparently unpublished, not in Collected Works, ed. Basler, or Supplements.