{"id":344,"date":"2009-06-16T15:15:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T20:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2010-06-16T08:20:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T13:20:55","slug":"long-lost-lincoln-letter-finds-its-way-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/06\/16\/long-lost-lincoln-letter-finds-its-way-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Lost Lincoln Letter Finds Its Way Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/letter_380.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-345\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/letter_380-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/letter_380-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/letter_380.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a>On May 28, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=104679055\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a> informed readers of a recent acquisition by the National Archives of a letter written by Lincoln to Secretary of Treasury, Salmon P. Chase.\u00a0 The letter was donated by Lawrence Cutler, a private collector, who waited until Lincoln&#8217;s bicentennial.\u00a0 Lincoln&#8217;s brief note, written just five days before his famous address at Gettysbug, in November of 1863, is Lincoln&#8217;s request for Chase to allow the former head of the U. S. Mint of Sacremento, Robert Stevens, access to evidence to why he was fired.\u00a0 &#8220;Experts said Lincoln&#8217;s letter to Chase demonstrates the president&#8217;s fairness,&#8221; explains NPR reporter Deborah Tedford.\u00a0 This letter adds one more piece of the puzzle in understanding Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 28, National Public Radio informed readers of a recent acquisition by the National Archives of a letter written by Lincoln to Secretary of Treasury, Salmon P. Chase.\u00a0 The letter was donated by Lawrence Cutler, a private collector, who waited until Lincoln&#8217;s bicentennial.\u00a0 Lincoln&#8217;s brief note, written just five days before his famous address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-recent-news","tag-lawmaking-litigating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}