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Yours of the 19th. is duly received; and for which I sincerely thank you.
My intelligence from Penn. & from the whole field, is very
much the same as you seem to have. As to my forgiving you for detaining me last Spring, I certainly do not hold you, and the Republicans of Connecticut, my debtors in anything. Yours very truly
A. LINCOLN
[1] ALS, CSmH. Sperry's letter of September 19 is not in the Lincoln Papers. A former Know-Nothing who had become a Republican, he was appointed postmaster at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1861 and remained in office until 1886. He was a member of the Republican National Committee during Lincoln's administration and served eight terms as U.S. representative beginning in 1886.