Title

Letter, Gideon Welles to James s. Petrie, February 13, 1871

Authors

Gideon Wells

Files

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)

PDF

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