ABRAHAM LINCOLN | A great Lincoln letter rediscovered: The President thanks a schoolboy on behalf of “all the children of the nation” for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated."

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED ("A. LINCOLN") AS SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT, TO JOHN J. MEIER OF BROOKLYN, THANKING HIS SON FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNION CAUSE

One page (9 ⅞ x 7 ¾ in.) on a bifolium of blue-ruled Executive Mansion letterhead,

body of the letter in the hand of presidential secretary Edward D. Neill, Washington, D.C., 6 September 6, 1864, docketed on the verso, "To Mothers brother."