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- GLC#
- GLC04922
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 9 November 1863
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- to Robert B. Roosevelt, John J. Astor Jr., and Nathaniel Sands
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Declining to endorse General Dix for Mayor of New York stating that it is beyond his power to interfere with New York politics. Written on a petition signed by R.B. Roosevelt and other Republican leaders of New York City, though Lincoln's letter includes Executive Mansion letterhead. Lincoln's note above salutation reads "Private except for Mr. Dix." Signers include Peter Cooper, William B. Astor, John Jacob Astor, Jr., M. Delano, Nathaniel Sands, Alexander T. Stewart, George Cabot Ward, William Orlon, Jonathan Sturpes, John Cochrane, A. R. Wetmore, Nathaniel Hayden, Edwin Hoyt, T. R. Butler, W.R. Vermilye, James M. Brown, John P. Moon, David Hoadley, Edward S. Jaffray, and W. M. Vermilye.
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