Memorandum: Appointment of Edgar Harriott1Jump to section
[c. February 17, 1863]
A direct descendant of one who never was a father.
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
- Author
- 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 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln6. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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Annotation
[1] AE, DLC-RTL. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a florid letter from Edgar Harriott, New York, February 17, 1863, to Mrs. Lincoln, asking her influence in obtaining his appointment as acting assistant paymaster in the Navy and claiming to be ``a direct decendent of John Randolph of Roanoke.'' Harriott was indeed poorly informed as to his ancestry, in view of what the Dictionary of American Biography refers to as the ``universal contemporary opinion that he [John Randolph] was impotent . . . verified after his death.''