FEINBERG/WHITMAN                     LITERARY FILE Prose 'Appointment of Harlan'' (1888?).   A. MS. draft. 
Box 34 Folder 25 
Published as "Small Memoranda" November Boughs
Includes verse note and envelope.Appointment of Harlan: prose. A.MS. (1p. 19 1/2 x 25 cm., 
with envelope 16 x 9 cm.)

Written in ink on a sheet of lined paper torn from a notebook, 
with a figure 6 at the top (sixth page of a piece of prose?): 
about 180 words. Second paragraph is cancelled by a diagonal 
line. On the back of the sheet is a note about a different matter. 
Accompanying is an envelope, Attorney General's Office, Official 
Business, with legend: 'Appointment of Harlan over Dubois (Mr. 
Lincoln's perplexit)'. The note reads: 'to be pressed any more 
on the subject. That night he called in the M.C. above alluded 
to & said to him; "tell Uncle Jesse that I want to give this 
appointment, & yet I cannot. I will do almost any thing else in 
the world [I can] for him I am able. I have thought the matter all 
over, & under the circumstances think the Methodists too good & 
too great a body to be slighted. The have stood by the government, 
[have] and helped us their very best. I have had no better
/over/friends: & as the case stands, I have decided to appoint Mr. Harlan. 
In other words Mr. Harlan got his office through being a 
Methodist clergyman & so fixing things that he appear'd to stand 
as the man of the Methodists. The rest consisted of [?] the 
President's [?] genuine gratitude to that really patriotic & powerful 
sect. For no man was more [faithful] naxious to practically 
acknowledge good done to the cause & the administration in its 
time of need, than Mr. Lincoln.' The note on the back reads; 
'Remember what was call'd Palmo's Opera House, Chambers Street, 
back of the City Hall, and was there to visit its performances 
1844 and '5; also, same place, afterwards, as W E Burton's  
Theatre. ([?] The premises had been a Bath House and Restaurant 
previous, by Palmo.)'6
to be pressed any more on the subject. 
That might be called in the M. C. above 
alluded to & said to him ; "tell Uncle 
Jesse that I want to give him this 
appointment, & yet I cannot. I will 
do almost anything else in the world 
[I can] for him I am able I have thought the 
matter all over, & under the circumstances 
think the Methodists too good
& too great a body to be slighted. They 
have stood by the government, [have] and helped 
us their very best.  I have had no better friends & as the case stands, I have decided to appoint Mr. Harlan " 
[In other words Mr. Harlan got
his office through being a Methodist 
clergyman & so fixing this that he 
appeared to stand as the man of the 
Methodists. The rest consisted of [it Mr] 
the President's [of] genuine gratitude to 
that really patriotic & powerful sect. For 
no man was more [faithful] anxious to practically 
acknowledge good done to the cause & the administration
in its time of need than, Mr. Lincoln.]Remember what was call'd Palmo's 
Opera House, Chambers Street Back of 
the City Hall, and was there to visit its 
performances 1844 and '5; also, same place, 
afterward, as W E Burton's Theatre. 
(The premise had been a Bath House and Restaurant 
previous, by Palmo.)Attorney General's Office,
Official Business 

Appointment of Harlan
over Dubois 
(Mr. Lincoln's perplexity)