Annotation
[1] ALS, CCamStJ; ADfS, DLC-RTL. The autograph draft is written on a letter from John Perkins, Jr., Quartermaster General's Office, October 4, 1864:
``The writer of the inclosed lines is a poetess of some reputation in Massachusetts and a lady who truly honors her President.
``Will you at a leisure moment deign to look at them, and comply with her request by presenting her your autograph.
``Mr Bates who hands you this will receive and forward it'' (DLC-RTL).
The poem by Mrs. Swift of Falmouth, Massachusetts, has not been found in the Lincoln Papers, but a copy is preserved with Lincoln's letter in St. John's Seminary.