Remainder of title: Embracing nearly sixty letters and executive requests on cards to Gideon Welles, many letters of Andrew Johnson, letters from various commanders of the Navy and Army, statesmen and other eminent men, all addressed to Welles and officers in the Navy during the Civil War, and Gideon Welles diary, and manuscripts of his various historical essays and reviews of affairs connected with Lincoln's administration. The most important collection of papers relating to the Civil War ever offered for sale, to be sold Friday afternoon, January 4th, 1924, at 2.30 o'clock.

Remainder of cover title: Including many letters from Lincoln, Johnson, naval and military commanders, statesmen and other eminent men, his original manuscripts of his numerous articles relating to Lincoln's administration and his diaries and commonplace books ...

Contains 516 lots.

Starr, J. Lincoln bibliography, 114

Bound in flexible boards, with printed lettering on cover; frontispiece.

Bears handwritten inscriptions in pencil throughout.