Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) to Gideon Welles re: on Stephen Logan's request for Navy job for young man
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06646 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Place Written: [Washington] Type: Autograph endorsement signed Date: 1862/03/26 Pagination: 2 p.+ docket 24.6 x 19.7 cm Order a Copy
A note, written as an endorsement on Logan's letter to Lincoln, supporting Stephen Logan's appeal on behalf of a young man for a navy clerkship. "The writer of this is almost a father to me...."
Notes: Not printed in Basler.
Springfield Ills Jany 13. 1862
Hon A Lincoln President of the US
Dear Sir
I have not much personal acquaintance with the bearer hereof Mr. James W. Farrar but he is highly recommended to me by some of our most respectable Citizens, and the little I have seen of him has made a very favourable impression. He is one of numbers who have been thrown out of employment by the existing troubles; should you have it in your power to give him such a Clerkship on some vessel of the US Navy as he desires I have no doubt he would perform his duties with fidelity energy and ability.
Respectfully yours
S T. Logan
Judge Supreme Court Illinois
I concur in the recommendation.
S. Foot
U. S. Senator
Vermont.
[docket:]
Clerkship,
Jas. W. Farrar
applicant
Rec'd. by
A. Lincoln.
[endorsement:]
The writer of this is almost a father to me, and if the Secretary of the Navy can find a place for the young man he recommends I shall be obliged.
A. Lincoln
March 26. 1862
[in later hand:]
mst
$RED
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