Lincoln, Abraham, sixteenth president

Engraved document, signed ("Abraham Lincoln"), on paper (15 7/8 x 20 in.; 404 x 508 mm), accomplished in a clerical hand, Washington D.C., 22 January 1862, being the appointment of Charles F. Winslow (1811-1877) as American Consul to Payta, Peru, countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward, with papered seal and inscribed "Duplicate", on verso is a confirmation letter in Spanish, signed by Ramon Castilla, President of Peru, Lima, 3 October 1862; formerly folded with some soiling at folds. Matted, glazed in a double-sided frame.

President Lincoln appoints Charles Frederick Winslow consul to Peru.

Winslow was a physician in Hawaii and Nantucket, and author of an early work on atomic theory Force and Nature (1869).