![LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. President. Autograph endorsement signed, ("A. Lincoln") as President [to Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy], [Washington, D.C.], 26 March 1862. 9 lines plus signature and dateline on verso of an autograph letter of Judge Stephen T. Logan to Lincoln, 1 page, 4to, neatly patched along folds.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1998/NYE/1998_NYE_08177_0209_000(112444).jpg?w=1)
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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. President. Autograph endorsement signed, ("A. Lincoln") as President [to Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy], [Washington, D.C.], 26 March 1862. 9 lines plus signature and dateline on verso of an autograph letter of Judge Stephen T. Logan to Lincoln, 1 page, 4to, neatly patched along folds.
"THE WRITER OF THIS IS ALMOST A FATHER TO ME..."
Stephen T. Logan, Lincoln's second law partner in Springfield and an old friend, has written in deferential terms to his former partner, now President, regarding a deserving young man. "I have not much personal acquaintance with the bearer...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 U.S. Navy, as he desires, I have no doubt he would perform his duties with fidelity, energy and ability."
President Lincoln, on the verso, forwards the request to Gideon Wells: "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." Not in Basler or Supplements and presumably unpublished.
Provenance: Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner from Thomas F. Madigan in 1928.
"THE WRITER OF THIS IS ALMOST A FATHER TO ME..."
Stephen T. Logan, Lincoln's second law partner in Springfield and an old friend, has written in deferential terms to his former partner, now President, regarding a deserving young man. "I have not much personal acquaintance with the bearer...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 U.S. Navy, as he desires, I have no doubt he would perform his duties with fidelity, energy and ability."
President Lincoln, on the verso, forwards the request to Gideon Wells: "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." Not in Basler or Supplements and presumably unpublished.
Provenance: Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner from Thomas F. Madigan in 1928.