Strength and Honor

Strength and Honor
Author: Richard N. Côté
Publisher: Corinthian Books
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781929175093

Based on more than two thousand of Dolley Payne Todd Madison's letters and accompanied by period illustrations, offers a biography of the popular First Lady who was renowned as a hostess and heroine of the War of 1812.

Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Gen. James H. Wilson

Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Gen. James H. Wilson
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
Total Pages: 4
Release: 1883
Genre: East River (N.Y.)
ISBN:

Handwritten letter in secretarial hand on "War Department, Washington City" letterhead, dated "June 21st 1883" and signed by "Robert T. Lincoln." Lincoln acknowledges receipt of a letter Wilson had written (as President of the Norwich and New York Transportation Company) regarding the dangerous navigation on a portion of the East River in New York City. Lincoln refers him to a report by Col. John Newton of the Corps of Engineers regarding that section of the river. Docketed on verso "Robert T. Lincoln, June 21, 1883, Improvement of East River" and stamped "This paper belongs in Envelope N21." Letter signed (LS).