Record Data
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
              Transcription
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.
 
 
     
