AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("A. LINCOLN"), ACKNOWLEDGING THE NECESSITY OF PREPARING FOR CIVIL WAR
Book & Manuscripts, Other
Books & Manuscripts
1 page (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.; 190 x 116 mm) on a bifolium, [Washington], (denoted Executive Mansion" in Lincoln's hand), 8 April 1861, to Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania; uniformly browned from old framing apart from rectangle in lower half pr