Lincoln, Mary

Each one page (7 7/8 x 4 7/8 in.; 201 x 155 mm) on a bifolium of Executive Mansion letterhead, Washington, 27 February [no year] and 10 May 1865, the second autograph; lightly soiled, minor marginal chipping. The integral blank of each mounted on mat board and framed together with 2 bank notes bearing a portrait of Stanton.

Not in Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters, ed. Turner and Turner

Each one page (7 7/8 x 4 7/8 in.; 201 x 155 mm) on a bifolium of Executive Mansion letterhead, Washington, 27 February [no year] and 10 May 1865, the second autograph; lightly soiled, minor marginal chipping. The integral blank of each mounted on mat board and framed together with 2 bank notes bearing a portrait of Stanton.
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The first note, likely written by O. F. Hall, reads, "Mr. Stanton I would like to have O F Hall detailed at the Executive Mansion to help My coachman about the stable as he has lost the use of one finger An by doing so you will Oblige me. He belongs to the First Dis of Columbia Volunteers Companie D." The second states, "You will please oblige me by discharging all of Co. K 150 Pa. Vol. from the Army."

Company K of the 150th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers served as President Lincoln's bodyguard, and served at both the White House and at the President's summer cottage at the Soldier's Home. Mrs. Lincoln may have tried to accelerate the company's collective discharge, but it remained in service until mustered out in June 1865.