A. Lincoln.

Telegram and letter to Horace Greeley. 
Executive Mansion, Washington, July 12, 1864.

Hon.  Horace Greeley, New York: 

I suppose you received my letter of the 9th.  I have just received yours of the 13th, and am disappointed by it.  I was not expecting you to send me a letter, but to bring me a man, or men.  Mr. Hay goes to you with my answer to yours of the 13th.

A. Lincoln.

[Carried by Major John Hay.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, JULY 15, 1864.

Hon.  Horace Greeley.

My Dear sir:-Yours of the 13th is just received, and I am disappointed that you have not already reached here with those commissioners, if they would consent to come on being shown my letter to you of the 9th instant.  Show that and this to them, and if they will come on the terms stated in the former, bring them.  I not only intend a sincere effort for peace, but I intend that you shall be a personal witness that it is made.

Yours truly,

A. Lincoln.

SAFE CONDUCT FOR CLEMENT C. CLAY AND OTHERS,

July 16, 1864.

The President of the United States directs that the four persons whose names follow, to wit, Hon.  Clement C. Clay, Hon.  Jacob Thompson, Professor James P. Holcombe, George N. Sanders, shall have safe conduct to the city of Washington in company with the Hon.  Horace Greeley, and shall be exempt from arrest or annoyance of any kind from any officer of the United States during their journey to the said city of Washington.

By order of the President: 
John Hay, Major and Assistant Adjutant-General

Telegram to general U. S. Grant.
[Washington] July 17. 1864. 11.25 A.M.

Lieutenant-general grant, City Point, Va.: 

In your dispatch of yesterday to General Sherman, I find the following, to wit: 

“I shall make a desperate effort to get a position here, which will hold the enemy without the necessity of so many men.”

Pressed as we are by lapse of time I am glad to hear you say this; and yet I do hope you may find a way that the effort shall not be desperate in the sense of great loss of life.

Abraham Lincoln,
President.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL D. HUNTER WASHINGTON JULY 17, 1864.

Major-general Hunter, Harper’s Ferry, West Va.