Details
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, [Washington, D.C.], 28 March 1864. Five lines plus signature and date-line on a small card, 1 page, 51 x 82 mm. (2 x 3 15/16 in.), an envelope of slightly later vintage present, bearing a note: "This was found among the papers of Mrs. W.W. Morris...who was a friend of the Lincoln's..." [With:] A lock of hair, purportedly Abraham Lincoln's, about 30 strands of dark hair folded into a small packet bearing 1860s inscription: "President Lincoln's hair from Coz Vincent." (2)
Just over two weeks after his second inauguration took place, Lincoln accepts a social invitation on his wife's behalf: His polite note, on a small blank card, reads: "Mrs. [Mary] Lincoln is confined to her room by illness but is improving & writes now she can see Mrs. Morris at 1 o'clock to-morrow...."
Mrs. Morris was the wife of General William W. Morris (1801-1865), who commanded the harbor defenses of Baltimore, Maryland from 1861 until reassigned to command the VII Corps in February 1865. He was promoted to Brevet Major General in December 1865 at the time of his death. Not in Collected Works, ed. R.P. Basler. (2)
Just over two weeks after his second inauguration took place, Lincoln accepts a social invitation on his wife's behalf: His polite note, on a small blank card, reads: "Mrs. [Mary] Lincoln is confined to her room by illness but is improving & writes now she can see Mrs. Morris at 1 o'clock to-morrow...."
Mrs. Morris was the wife of General William W. Morris (1801-1865), who commanded the harbor defenses of Baltimore, Maryland from 1861 until reassigned to command the VII Corps in February 1865. He was promoted to Brevet Major General in December 1865 at the time of his death. Not in Collected Works, ed. R.P. Basler. (2)