GDG- Lobbying for Land Office

[Dennis Lawrence]

To Willie P. Mangum 
<http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;cc=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=trgt;idno=lincoln2;id=2_53_2;note=ptr>[1]
Hon: Willie P. Mangum: Springfield, Ills.
Dear Sir: June 4th. 1849

I understand the President has determined to give the General Land 
Office to Illinois; and if you would quite as soon I should have it 
as any other Illinoian, I shall be grateful if you will write me to 
that effect at Washington, where I expect to be soon.

A private despach from thence, tells me the appointment has been 
postponed three weeks from the first Inst. for my benefit. No time to 
lose. Your Obt. Servt. A. LINCOLN
Annotation

[1]   ALS, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Mangum was 
senator from North Carolina.