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[1] NH, VI, 268-69. ALS, RPB. Lincoln's endorsement on envelope reads ``Christopher Adams, of/N.Y. for/Bureau of Construction.'' A scrap of envelope endorsed, not in Lincoln's hand, ``Christopher Adams./Architect & Builder / of New York. Bureau of Construction'' and bearing on the verso, Lincoln's endorsement ``Recommended
by both/Weed & Greely'' is in the Lincoln Papers, but the letters of Greeley and Weed are not.
[2] Ammi B. Young, supervising architect, still held the office as of September 30, 1861.