Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Abraham Lincoln to the Managing Committee of the Sailor’s Fair, November 8, 1864


Executive Mansion,   
Washington, D. C., Nov. 8, 1864.
The Managing Committee of the Sailor's Fair:
Boston, Mass.

Allow me to wish you a great success. With the old fame of the Navy, made brighter in the present war, you can not fail. I name none, lest I wrong others by omission. To all, from Rear Admiral, to honest Jack I tender the Nation's admiration and gratitude

A. LINCOLN

SOURCES: John G. Nicolay & John Hay, Abraham Lincoln; Complete Works, Volume 2, p. 594; Roy P. Basler, Editor, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 8, p. 95; SOURCE: Laura E. Richards & Maud Howe Elliott, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, Large-Paper Edition, Volume 1, p. 211.

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