To Benjamin Kellogg, Jr.1Jump to section
Dear Ben: Washington. April 21- 1848
Your letter,2Jump to section which I herewith return, was received two days ago. On yesterday I went to the Patent office with it, made the
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1 [1824-Aug. 28, 1848].
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1 [1824-Aug. 28, 1848].
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- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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- New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
- 1953.
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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1 [1824-Aug. 28, 1848]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln1. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2024.
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memorandum on it which you see on the back of it,3Jump to section and left it. Last night they returned it to me, with no other answer, than the pencil notes at the top and bottom of it, which you see.4Jump to section I return the letter, because I suppose you will understand their notes better by seeing them, than you could by my writing about them. Yours as ever A LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ALS-P, ISLA. Kellogg was an attorney of Pekin, Illinois.
[2] Kellogg wrote on April 4, asking Lincoln to ascertain why he had not heard from the patent office in regard to two deeds sent for recording---the deeds being from William Wilcox to S.M. Whipple for the right of Colburn's Improved Iron Pump to several states and territories.
[3] Memorandum is as follows: ``Please examine this letter, and give me the desired information; and return this, to me with your own. A. Lincoln.''
[4] The penciled notations are as follows: Top---``Pekin PO-D.G. Colburn patee. 3 deeds/Recd. March 4 48''; Bottom---``The above deeds were sent / Sent Apl 5 Pekin P.O. Ills.''