To Mary Todd Lincoln1Jump to section
Metropolitan Hotel Washington,
New-York. April 28. 1864.
The draft will go to you. Tell Tad the goats and father are very well---especially the goats. A. LINCOLN.
Annotation
[1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 41. Mrs. Lincoln telegraphed on April 28: ``We reached here in safety. Hope you are well. Please send me by mail to-day a check for $50 directed to me, care Mr. Warren Leland, Metropolitan Hotel, Tad says are the goats well.'' (Katherine Helm, Mary, Wife of Lincoln, p. 239).