ALS signed “Bird,” four pages, lightly-lined on two adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 10, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Council Chamber letterhead, April 22, 1863. Letter to Timothy Otis Howe. In part: “I want to go down to Fortress Monroe next month & don’t want to be bothered about passes…see if you can’t get from Sec. Stanton some sort of authority, a commission or what not, for me to go down there…you can get up something which Stanton will sign which will relieve me. I can report to Dix, or your commission, or any body except Old Abe.” Bird goes on to discuss freed slave laws in the South. Intersecting folds, one horizontal fold with moderate separation, and a couple spots of foxing, otherwise fine condition. Francis W. Bird was a paper manufacturer active in Massachusetts politics. RRAuction COA.
