One of the Last Known Letters or Notes Abraham Lincoln Ever Wrote
The President, who would be assassinated two days later, seeks to reward a friend and colleague with whom he practiced law in Illinois with a position at West Point
We have found record of only three other pieces dated later this document ever reaching the market
Isaac G. Wilson was a prominent attorney in Illinois when Lincoln was practicing law there, and he was well known to Lincoln. Just before leaving Illinois for Washington to serve his term in Congress in...
We have found record of only three other pieces dated later this document ever reaching the market
Isaac G. Wilson was a prominent attorney in Illinois when Lincoln was practicing law there, and he was well known to Lincoln. Just before leaving Illinois for Washington to serve his term in Congress in 1847, the two men cooperated as co-counsel in the case of Henderson vs. Welch. When Lincoln was President, Welch was judge of the Thirteenth Circuit in Illinois. He was eventually named appellate judge of the state court.
In the 19th century, West Point had examining committees as part of the Academic Board, and these examined the cadets one by one in a personal version of today’s final exams. Lincoln sought a temporary examiners position for Wilson for the June 1865 round of exams there.
Autograph note signed, Washington, April 12, 1865, almost surely to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, in whose bailiwick this request would fall. “I would be glad, if convenient, for Isaac G. Wilson of Illinois to be an examiner at West Point.”
Lincoln was assassinated two days later. Our research and consultations with the Abraham Lincoln Library suggests that this was one of the approximately 25 last known letters and notes Lincoln ever wrote, and it is one of a smaller number whose location (or continued existence) has been established. We have found record of only three other pieces dated later this document ever reaching the market.
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