LS, 1882 April 20 : Washington, D.C., (Office of the Admiral), to O.H. Oldroyd.

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LS, 1882 April 20 : Washington, D.C., (Office of the Admiral), to O.H. Oldroyd.

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This letter has an additional short notation of seven lines in Porter's hand. Written to Oldroyd, and later printed in Oldroyd's collection "The Lincoln Memorial," (pages 399-400), Porter gives his description of Lincoln. In part, he says: "I was intimately associated with Mr. Lincoln during a period of two or three weeks when the war of rebellion was drawing to a close, and my remembrance of him is of a man whose mind was oppressed with care and whose body was almost broken down with the magnitude of his labors; whose days and nights were passed in sleepless anxiety for the preservation and welfare of the Union ..."

4 p. ; 34 x 21.5 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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