Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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September 9, 1863

Mrs. Harvey wishes the Hospital to be named for her late husband. . . .

Annotation

[1] American Book Prices Current, XXXIV, Walpole Galleries, March 14, 1918, No. 407. According to an article in The Wisconsin Magazine of History, March, 1918, I, 245-46, giving the recollections of Mrs. Cordelia A. P. Harvey, widow of Governor Lewis Harvey of Wisconsin, Lincoln wrote a card ``requesting the Secretary of War to name the hospital `Harvey Hospital,' in memory of my husband.'' This account also reproduces an endorsement written by Lincoln on a letter from Senator James R. Doolittle introducing Mrs. Harvey: ``Admit Mrs. Harvey at once; listen to what she says; she is a lady of intelligence and talks sense. A. LINCOLN.'' The date of the endorsement is not given, but the context of the article implies that it was written the previous day, September 8, 1863.

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