LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, [Washington, D.C.], 8 December 1864. 1 page, a small square, matted and framed with a photograph of President Lincoln during his last months in office. [With:] Autograph letter signed by Benjamin M. Plumb to a friend, Washington, D.C., 7 January 1865, 3 pages, 8vo, War Department stationery, forwarding the above. President Lincoln makes a cryptic request: "Will the Secretary of War please send me an answer to this? A. Lincoln." Not in Basler or Supplements, and apparently unpublished.