{"id":5808,"date":"2025-02-27T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/?page_id=5808"},"modified":"2025-02-27T15:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:02:29","slug":"anna-dickinson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/anna-dickinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Dickinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1864: Anna Dickinson, age 21<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wevideo.com\/embed\/#2747416798\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-27-at-9.44.41-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5811 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-27-at-9.44.41-AM-1024x570.png\" alt=\"Dickinson story\" width=\"629\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-27-at-9.44.41-AM-1024x570.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-27-at-9.44.41-AM-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-27-at-9.44.41-AM-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-27-at-9.44.41-AM-1536x855.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-27-at-9.44.41-AM-900x501.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-27-at-9.44.41-AM-1280x712.png 1280w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-27-at-9.44.41-AM.png 1664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>1864: Grace Bedell, age 14<\/h2>\n<p>Grace G. Bedell to Abraham Lincoln, Albion, New York, January 14, 1864, National Archives, Washington, D.C.*<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Transcribed April 22, 2007 by Matthew Pinsker<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Albion, Orleans Co, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p>Jan 14<sup>th<\/sup> \/64<\/p>\n<p>Pres. Lincoln,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Grace-bedell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5817\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Grace-bedell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>After a great deal of forethought on the subject I have concluded to address you asking your aid in obtaining a situation.\u00a0 Do you remember before your election receiving a letter from a little girl residing at Westfield in Chautauqua Co. advising the wearing of whiskers as an improvement to your face.\u00a0 I am that little girl grown to the size of a woman. I believe in your answer to that letter you signed yourself, \u201cYour true friend and well-wisher.\u201d\u00a0 Will you not show yourself my friend now.\u00a0 My Father during the last few years lost nearly all his property and although we have never known want, I feel that I <u>ought<\/u> and <u>could<\/u> do something for myself.\u00a0 If I only know what that \u201csomething\u201d was.\u00a0 I have heard that a large number of girls are employed constantly and with good wages at Washington cutting Treasury notes and other things pertaining to that Department.\u00a0 Could I not obtain a situation there?\u00a0 I know I could if you would exert your unbounded influence.\u00a0 A word from you would secure me a good paying situation which would at least enable me to support myself if not to help my parents, this, at present is my highest ambition.<\/p>\n<p>My parents are ignorant of this application to you for assistance.\u00a0 If you require proof of my family\u2019s respectability I can name persons here whose names may not be unknown to you.\u00a0 We have always resided here excepting the two years we were at Westfield.\u00a0 I have addressed one letter to you before pertaining to this subject but receiving no answer I chose rather to think you had failed to receive it \u2013not believing that your natural kindness of heart of which I have heard so much would prompt you to pass it by unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>Direct to this place<\/p>\n<p>Grace G. Bedell<\/p>\n<p>[NOTATION ON REVERSE SIDE IN DIFFERENT HAND:]<\/p>\n<p>Employment, Grace G. Bedell, applicant]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0\u00a0 Previously unknown letter discovered by independent researcher Karen Needles in February 2007<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For more on this story, read &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/files\/2013\/06\/Lincolns-Daughter.pdf\">Lincoln&#8217;s Daughter&#8221;<\/a> by Matthew Pinsker and see <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2011\/02\/16\/lincoln-meets-grace-bedell\/\">this post at Blog Divided<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Bedell.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5819\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Bedell-1024x759.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Bedell-1024x759.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Bedell-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Bedell-768x569.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Bedell-900x667.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Bedell-1280x948.png 1280w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Bedell.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1864: Anna Dickinson, age 21 \ufeff 1864: Grace Bedell, age 14 Grace G. Bedell to Abraham Lincoln, Albion, New York, January 14, 1864, National Archives, Washington, D.C.* &#8211;Transcribed April 22, 2007 by Matthew Pinsker &nbsp; Albion, Orleans Co, N.Y. Jan 14th \/64 Pres. Lincoln, After a great deal of forethought on the subject I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5808","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}