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1.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ADS : Springfield, Ill., 1839 Aug. 6.	Receipt for payment by a client, signed "Stuart & Lincoln".

2.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1849 Dec. 15, Springfield, Ill., to George W. Rives.	While Lincoln was serving as congressman from Illinois he had apparently been forced to refuse to support a recommendation made by Rives, who then began to abuse him. Here Lincoln expresses his hurt and his wish to resolve the problem.

3.	Delahay, Mark W. (Mark William), 1818?-1879.	Correspondence : Washington, D.C., with Abraham Lincoln, 1861 May 10.	Delahay requests an interview with Lincoln, whose affirmative autograph reply is on verso.

4.	Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.	ALS, 1865 March 30, Gravelly Run, Va., to Abraham Lincoln, City Point, Va.	Reports on losses at the battle of Dinwiddie, and Union troop movements following it.	Appomattox Campaign, 1865. Dinwiddie Court House, Battle of, Dinwiddie, Va., 1865.

5.	United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)	Executive order : Washington, D.C., 1865 Mar. 6.	Orders free passage through federal lines for goods purchased by the government from Amos C. and William Babcock and safe conduct for their agents. Signed by Lincoln.	Babcock, Amos C., fl. 1865. Babcock, William, fl. 1865. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Equipment and supplies. Safe-conducts.

6.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : to the Kentucky delegation, 1861 July 29.	Asks the consent of Kentucky's congressmen for Jesse Bayles to raise a regiment in the state. Endorsed with the signatures of all five congressmen and an ANS by Lincoln dated 5 August.	Bayles, Jesse. United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. United States. Congress -- Kentucky delegation.

7.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1839 Dec. 11, Springfield, Ill., to Eliza Caldwell Browning, Quincy, Ill.	A mock petition by Lincoln and several of his friends in the state legislature to the wife of a colleague, requesting her to return to Springfield with a train of young ladies for the Christmas season. The "petition" is begun by Lincoln and finished by John J. Hardin, and signed by both of them, as well as John Dawson and E.B. Webb; and followed by a letter from Hardin to Mrs. Browning, endorsed by Lincoln and Webb.	Browning, Eliza Caldwell, fl. 1836-1839. Springfield (Ill.) -- Social life and customs.

8.	Burke, Edward, fl. 1862.	Letters of recommendation, 1862, Washington, D.C.	ALS by Abraham Lincoln, 4 March 1862, on Executive Mansion stationery, "to whom it may concern"; endorsed with an ANS, no date, by Sen. Orville H. Browning to Mr. Newton; ALS by John G. Nicolay, 16 June 1862, on Executive Mansion stationery, to Capt. Dana, Assistant Quartermaster, recommending Burke for a job as mess-room steward; and the envelope for this letter, addressed and franked by Nicolay.	Burke, Edward, fl. 1862.

9.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : Springfield, Ill., to William B. Preston, 1849 May 16.	Lincoln opposes the appointment of Justin Butterfield of Chicago as commissioner of the General Land Office, on the grounds that the has already received several political appointments after elections in which others worked hard and he did nothing.	Butterfield, Justin, 1790-1855. United States. Springfield Land Office -- Officials and employees. Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865. Patronage, Political -- Illinois.

10.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : City Point, Va., to Ulysses S. Grant, 1865 Apr. 6.	Lincoln describes his secret meeting with the Confederate assistant secretary of war, John A. Campbell, to discuss the possibility of peace, and directs Grant to continue his campaign in Virginia. Also mentions Secretary of State William Seward's carriage accident.	Campbell, John Archibald, 1811-1889. Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 -- Health. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Peace. Appomattox Campaign, 1865.

11.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ADS, 1864 Jan. 12, Washington, D.C.	Establishes the point where the line of the Central Pacific Railroad crosses Arcade Creek in the Sacramento Valley as the western base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.	Central Pacific Railroad Company. Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Boundaries. Railroads -- United States.

12.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : Springfield, Ill., to W.H. Wells, Waynesburg, Pa., 1859 Jan. 8.	In response to a request for a copy of his debates with Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln writes that Douglas's support for the Dred Scott decision and his refusal to condemn slavery make it impossible for Republicans to support him.	Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 -- Views on slavery. Slavery -- United States. Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858. United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861. Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865.

13.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ANS (initials) : to Mark Delahay, [1859 May 14].	Accompanied a copy (not present) of a form letter sent to J.L. Dugger and M.F. Conway in Kansas; notes that Lincoln plans to speak in Kansas before the election.	Dugger, Jefferson L., fl. 1859. Conway, M. F. (Martin Franklin), 1827-1882. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861. Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861.

14.	Elliott, Andrew, defendant.	Answer in Berry v. Elliott et al : Springfield, Ill., 1846 Mar. 26.	Legal document in the hand of Abraham Lincoln in a case involving the estate of one of the first settlers in Springfield. Elisha Kelly from North Carolina, with his father Henry and four brothers, John, Elijah, William and George, were the first to build cabins on the site of Springfield. William Kelly later left for Missouri, but before he left he placed several notes in the hands of Andrew Elliott, who opened the Buckhorn Tavern at Springfield in 1821, to be collected for his daughter. This document deals with the suit of John Berry on behalf of his daughter, Kelly's granddaughter, against Elliott. The matter was complicated by certain verbal instructions given by Kelly after his departure, and so the full history of the case is here set forth. Lincoln represented Elliott, and at one point the case was ordered to be arbitrated. Lincoln and Josiah Lamborn, Kelly's lawyer, drew up a statement of the facts and submitted it to David A. Smith, a lawyer of Jacksonville, for arbitration. Smith ruled that Elliott was authorized to retain the control of the fund during Maria's minority. This document is the respondent's statement, signed by Elliott, and witnessed on 26 March 1846 by John Calhoun. On the back of the last page A. M. Heslep, representing the complainant, asks satisfaction of the Circuit Court of Sangamon County, charging that "the answer of complainant is insufficient untrue & evasive." John Calhoun had been Lincoln's chief when he was a surveyor.	Elliott, Andrew -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Trials, litigation, etc.

15.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	Baltimore address : holograph ms., [not after 1864 Apr. 18].	In this speech given at the Sanitary Fair in Baltimore, 18 April 1864, Lincoln analyzes conflicting definitions of the word "liberty" and comments on the rumors of the massacre of surrendered black Union troops at Fort Pillow. He takes responsibility for the decision to admit blacks to the army and acknowledges that having employed them the government must give them equal protection. He promises that the facts of the matter will be found, and if the news is true, there will be retribution.	Fort Pillow, Battle of, Tenn., 1864. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Atrocities. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American. African Americans -- Tennessee. Liberty.

16.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : Washington, D.C., to Henry W. Halleck, 1863 Oct. 24.	Reviews the latest intelligence on Confederate troop movements and suggests that if Halleck has no plan, the Army of the Potomac should attack Lee and try to break the railroad at Lynchburg.	Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872. United States. Army of the Potomac. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

17.	Goodrich, Grant, fl. 1863.	ALS : Chicago, to Abraham Lincoln, 1863 July 6.	Introduces J.G. Hamilton, whose brother-in-law William T. Smithson has been imprisoned for treason. In an autograph endorsement dated 1 August, Lincoln asks that Smithson's case be turned over to the civil court.	Hamilton, J. G., fl. 1863. Smithson, William T., fl. 1861-1863 -- Imprisonment. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Collaborationists.

18.	Harris, Henry T., fl. 1864.	ALS : Elmira Prison, Elmira, N.Y., to his cousin Louis, 1864 Nov. 9.	Gives details of his arrest and confinement as a prisoner of war and asks for help in obtaining his release. With an autograph endorsement by Abraham Lincoln, 8 December 1864, directing that Harris be released on taking the loyalty oath of 8 December 1863.	Harris, Henry T., fl. 1864 -- Imprisonment. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.

19.	Hale, James Tracy, 1810-1865.	ALS : Washington, D.C., to Abraham Lincoln, 1864 Dec. 19.	Asks that George N. Heard, who had been forced into the Confederate Army but whose family and friends were in Pennsylvania, be released from Fort Delaware prison. With an autograph endorsement by Lincoln, 20 December, directing that Heard be discharged on taking a loyalty oath.	Heard, George N., fl. 1854-1864 -- Imprisonment. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.

20.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1850 Mar. 22, Springfield, Ill., to Thomas Ewing.	Recommends Dr. Anson G. Henry to the secretary of the Interior for appointment to an Indian agency.	Henry, Anson G., 1804-1865. Indian agents -- Selection and appointment -- United States.