To Edward Bates1Jump to section
Attorney General please send me the papers by my Messenger.
Sep. 28. 1863 A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] AES, DNA RG 204, U.S. Pardon Attorney, A 439. See Lincoln to Welles, August 12, supra. Lincoln's endorsement is written on the back of a memorandum, filed with the papers of James Dillon: ``The Pardon clerk (Attorney General's office) cannot let papers in pardon-cases go out of his hands without a written order from the President.'' See Lincoln's memorandum of September 30, infra.