The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln-VOL. VII Chap. 2.74
Telegram To John Williams.
War Department, Washington City, April 25, 1864.

JOHN WILLIAMS, Springfield, Ill.:

Yours of the 15th is just received. Thanks for your kind remembrance. I would accept your offer at once, were it not that I fear there might be some impropriety in it, though I do not see that there would. I will think of it a while.

A. LINCOLN.