JOHNSON, ANDREW, President. Endorsement signed ("Andrew Johnson") as President, to Surgeon General William Hammond, Washington, D.C., 5 May 1865. 1 page, 8vo, text of the message in a clerk's hand, text and signature on the verso of a letter to the President from Adele Douglas on monogrammed mourning stationery. Mrs. Douglas appeals to the President to prevent the government terminating its lease on property she owns now used for an army hospital, since it would cause her extreme hardship as "I am wholly dependant upon the rent for the support of myself and my children." Johnson emphatically responds: "Respectfully referred to the Surgeon General U.S. Army. It is my desire that Mrs. Douglas should be gratified in the very reasonable request expressed within, and I therefore respectfully ask that the Surgeon General direct the retention of the Douglas Hospital so long as it can be consistently held and used for hospital purposes..."