ALS by Hudgins to Rep. Austin A. King, 29 January, explaining his case and asking for help in securing a pardon. The letter bears autograph endorsements signed by King [s.d.], recommending a pardon; and by Abraham Lincoln, 28 February, directing that a pardon be made out. Also present are King's autograph receipt for the pardon, 3 March, and the envelope from the attorney general's office that contained the documents.
Hudgins, Prince L. -- Pardon. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. King, Austin Augustus, 1802-1870. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. Pardon -- United States.
Recommends that Turner R. King be appointed register of the General Land Office at Springfield if it becomes vacant. Comments on the incumbent, James W. Barrett. Postscript signed A.L.
King, Turner R., fl. 1849. Barrett, James W., fl. 1842-1849. United States. Springfield Land Office -- Officials and employees. Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865. Patronage, Political -- Illinois.
Lewis's lawyers, McWilliams, William Henry Herndon, and Abraham Lincoln, plead actio non to Henry Hageman's suit against their client. Entirely in Lincoln's hand and signed by him "McWilliams, Lincoln & Herndon".
Lewis, Thomas, store owner -- Trials, litigation, etc. Hageman, Henry -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Asks Barrett to procure copies of the Journal and Debates of the New York Convention of 1821 and the Journal of the New York Senate of 1812; reports on local politics in Illinois.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Books and reading. Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865.
In reply to a request for genealogical information, Abraham Lincoln had written to Solomon Lincoln what he knew of his family back to his great-great-grandfather. In this letter he answers some of Solomon's questions based on that account, and suggests further lines of inquiry.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Family. Lincoln family.
In reply to a request from the daughter of the historian John Lothrop Motley, Lincoln sends his signature. With envelope addressed and franked by Lincoln's secretary John G. Nicolay. Accompanied by a signed photograph (carte-de-visite, by Mathew Brady).
Concerns the advantages of free labor over slavery. Believed Believed to be from a speech delivered at Cincinnati 17 Sept. 1859. A manuscript of the speech, lacking this passage, is in the Robert Todd Lincoln Papers in the Library of Congress.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery. Slave labor -- United States.
In October 1863, Abraham Lincoln sent his original manuscript of the Emancipation Proclamation to be sold for the benefit of the Northwestern Fair of the United States Sanitary Commission, forerunner of the Red Cross. It was purchased by Thomas B. Bryan, President of the Soldiers' Home of Chicago, who decided to sell lithographic copies of the proclamation to benefit sick and disabled Union servicemen. This subscription book for facsimiles of the Emancipation Proclamation contains the signatures of Lincoln, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, all cabinet members, and members of Congress from every state in the Union, including the future president James A. Garfield, all personally solicited by Bryan.
Letter of introduction and safe-conduct pass for Mary A. Stevens, who wished to go through Union lines to Houston to dispose of property there. The first item is a secretarial letter to Lincoln from Andrew Johnson, then military governor of Tennessee and Lincoln's running mate, dated 31 October, introducing Mrs. Stevens and requesting that she be given a pass. The original envelope is present. The pass itself is an ADS by Lincoln on a small card, dated 14 November.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Stevens, Mary A. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Asks Lincoln to act on a petition for the release her son William Martin, a prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio. Mounted on the bottom of the page are a clipped ANS by John Hay, 12 April, requesting that the petition be sent to Lincoln, and a clipped ANS by Lincoln, 13 April, directing that the prisoner be released on taking the loyalty oath of 8 December 1863.
Martin, William -- Imprisonment. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.
McAdam asks Lincoln's assistance in the case of his friend James A. McCrea, a Scotsman convicted of selling whiskey to soldiers in Kentucky. With an ANS by Lincoln, June 10, on the last page.
Eleven members of Congress from Missouri, four from Kentucky, and the governor of Utah recommend Judge S.P. McCurdy for a judgeship in the Utah or Idaho Territory. With an ANS by Lincoln, dated 27 January, on the verso.
McCurdy, Solomon Portious Sharp, 1820-1890. United States. Congress -- Missouri delegation. Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States.
Rejoinder to the second replication in G.U. Miles's suit against Lawrence in the circuit court of Sangamon County. Written and signed by Lawrence's attorney, Mason Brayman; with an autograph endorsement by the plaintiff's attorney Abraham Lincoln, signed "Harris & Lincoln". Endorsed on the verso "Filed March 27, 1846".
Miles, G. U. -- Trials, litigation, etc. Lawrence, S. K. -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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