Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 to Henry J. Raymond

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GLC#
GLC05303.01-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
27 September 1864
Author/Creator
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Title
to Henry J. Raymond
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
2 p. : address : envelope : free frank Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 12.6 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Writes to the editor of the New York Times and Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Union [Republican] Party. Urges Raymond to collaborate with the New York Young Men's Republican Union, which had sponsored and published Lincoln's address at the Cooper Institute, 27 February 1860. States that the New York Union is an "efficient, and most worthy coworker in the Union cause, and the cooperation with which will probably be useful." Separate address leaf with note stating this letter was written in the presence of Dexter A. Hawkins, Frank W. Ballard, and Mark Hoyt, and states when it was delivered.

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