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Contributor
Frank and Virginia Williams
Description
This letter, dated February 13, 1871, from Gideon Welles, the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, a cabinet post he was awarded after supporting Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election, to James S. Petrie in response to earlier communication. This note was found tipped into volume three, between pages 372-373 of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.
Publication Date
2-13-1871
Rights
Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Publisher
New York : The Century Co
Subjects
Gideon, Welles, 1802 – 1878
Object Type
text
Format (original)
correspondence: 1 leaf
Format (digital)
Digital ID
FVW_NH_V3_1871-02-13_Letter_001
Source
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3, page 258-259
Repository
The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana Repository
Digital Publisher
Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)
Contact Information
For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.
Recommended Citation
E457 .N653 2011 V.3, pages 372-373, Original Documents and Original photographs in Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln , Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Mississippi State University Libraries