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Frank and Virginia Williams

Description

This handwritten letter, dated February 3, 1868, is from Edwin Stanton, an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War, to M.D. Phillips. The letter is an acknowledgment of Phillips' kind sentiments. This letter was found tipped into volume five, between pages 124-125 of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.

Publication Date

2-3-1868

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

Time Period

1860-1869

Subjects

Stanton, Edwin, 1814 – 1869

Object Type

text

Format (original)

correspondence: 1 leaf

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

FVW_NH_V5_1868-02-03_Letter_001

Source

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 5, pages 124-125

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.

Letter, Edwin Stanton to M.D. Phillips, February 3, 1868

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