DISCUSSING THE APPOINTMENT OF A CANDIDATE FOR A COLLECTORSHIP, IN AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED BY GIDEON WELLES, AS SECRETARY OF THE NAVY IN ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S CIVIL WAR CABINET, WASHINGTON [DC], SEPT. 8, 1862, TO FREDERICK S. WILDMAN, DANBURY, CONNECTICUT.
Single sheet, folded. 17 cm. 2 pp. of text, rectos only, approx. 85 words, on stationery with the blind embossed stamp of Philps & Solomon, Washington D.C. [stationers and book publishers]. Welles addresses Wildman, in response to a letter from him, on the subject of candidates for the Collectorship: "On..... More