Lincoln, Abraham. Endorsement signed as 16th president, evidently clipped from a request for leniency in a military case

Property from Joseph Rubinfine, American Historical Autographs

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM

CLIPPED MANUSCRIPT ENDORSEMENT SIGNED ("A. LINCOLN") AS 16TH PRESIDENT

Oblong (3/4 x 3 in.; 18 x 77 mm), on a slip cut from a larger sheet of blue ruled paper; remnants of adhesive. With a color portrait of Lincoln. Matted, framed, and glazed together; not examined out of frame.

"Sentences approved. | Nov. 7. 1863. A. Lincoln" — evidently clipped from a request for leniency in a military case.