Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, June 16, 1863

Abraham Lincoln, Brady image, 1863, detail

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Source citation:

Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, June 16, 1863, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 6:283, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.

Author:

Lincoln, Abraham

Recipient:

Lincoln, Mary Todd

Type:

Letter

Date Certainty:

Exact

Transcriber:

Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler

Adapted by Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College

Transcription date:

07/05/2013

Transcription

The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

Washington City, D.C.

June 16. 1863

Mrs. Lincoln

Philadelphia.

It is a matter of choice with yourself whether you come home. There is no reason why you should not, that did not exist when you went away. As bearing on the question of your coming home, I do not think the raid into Pennsylvania amounts to anything at all

A. LINCOLN

Major Topics

Gettysburg Campaign

Places

White House, Washington, DC

Philadelphia, PA

Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, June 16, 1863

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