Abraham Lincoln to Henry Wilson, May 15, 1862

    Source citation
    Abraham Lincoln to Henry Wilson, May 15, 1862, Washington, DC, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 5: 218, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.
    Recipient (to)
    Wilson, Henry
    Type
    Letter
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler
    Adapted by Brenna McKelvey, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following transcript has been adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953).
    Hon. Henry Wilson Executive Mansion
     
    My dear Sir: May 15, 1862.
     
    I would gladly say a word for the two establishments at Philadelphia, one called the ``Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon'' and the other the ``Cooper Shop'' if I could do so with propriety and good taste. But I know nothing of the facts myself, and could only say hypothetically, that if they have dealt so generously with our volunteers, as I have frequently heard, and believe, they are indeed worthy of all praise. Yours very truly A. LINCOLN.
     
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