The following is a copy of the correspondence between the Hon. A.
Lincoln and the Committee of Arrangements, for paying a suitable
tribute of respect to the late President of the United States:
A. LINCOLN, Esq.
Sir:--We, the undersigned Committee, appointed at a meeting of our
fellow citizens, to act in conjunction with the Committee appointed
by the Common Council of this city, to select a suitable person to
deliver an address to our citizens at the City Hall upon the life
of Z. Taylor, deceased, late President of the United States of
America.
We have, with great unanimity of feeling and sentiment of both
Committees, selected yourself for the purpose named--and desire
that you will be kind enough to accept thereof and to name the time
when you will perform that duty, of addressing your fellow-citizens
of Chicago, at the place named.
With sentiments of high esteem
Your fellow-citizens
L. C. KERCHEVAL
B. S. MORRIS
G. W. DOLE
J. H. KINZIE
W. L. NEWBERRY