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to Robert Tyler re: politics in Pennsylvania, loneliness

Written as President, remarking that only he and Miss Lane occupy the White House.

GLC02793.031

to Mr. Swarr re: finances and inability to lend money

Written as President

GLC02793.032

to William Weaver Danenhower re: his time constraints & Illinois appointments

Written as President. Not in Basler.

GLC02793.033

to Joseph Holt re: trial of Simon Ready before military court

Written as President on Executive Mansion stationery. Basler 8: 22. Ready has not been identified and no response is known. Joseph Holt was Judge Advocate General.

GLC02793.037

to Dr. Robert King Stone re: prescription for Mrs. Lincoln's headache

Written as President. Not in Basler, but compare Basler 7: 161 and 179.

GLC02793.035

to Gideon Welles re: furnishing coal for the Government

Written as President. Not in Basler. Lincoln writes to his Secretary of Navy about a woman's proposal to supply coal. He suspects she is insane.

GLC02793.036

to Mary Todd Lincoln

Addresses his wife as "Dear Mother." Sends a draft for $50 and states that any merchant in New York will give her money for it. Written on Executive Mansion stationery.

GLC02793.034

to William H. Seward re: affairs in Texas

Written as President. Date inferred from content.

GLC02793.038

to his father Jesse Grant re: declining to intervene in an appointment

Written as President

GLC02793.039

to Lucius S. Felt re: insurance on home in Galena, Ill.

Written as President during his re-election campaign. Grant also mentions the possibility of repairing the house should he be defeated.

GLC02793.040