Your letter of the 17th inst. saying you had received no answer to
yours informing me of my appointment as Secretary of Oregon is
received and surprises me very much—I received that letter accompanied
by the commissions in due course of mail, and answered it two days
after, declining the office and warmly recommending Simeon Francis for
it. I have also written you several letters since, alluding to the
same matter all of which ought to have reached you before the date of
your last letter.
Your Obt. Servt.
“A. LINCOLN.”