The Bixby Letter

[Eva Elisabeth]

Thanks, Roger!
(Please excuse if this has already been posted/discussed!) According to the Lincoln Log, Lincoln (?) wrote further letters on the very day:

"Lincoln writes to 104-year-old John Phillips, of Sturbridge, Massachusetts. In his lifetime, Phillips voted in many presidential elections, and he recently cast a vote for Lincoln's re-election. Lincoln thanks Phillips 'for the compliment paid me by the suffrage of a citizen so venerable.' Lincoln notes Phillips's 'devotion to civic duties,' and adds, 'It is not for myself only, but for the country which you have in your sphere served so long and so well, that I thank you.'"

"Writes former Cong. Augustus R. Wright (Ga.): 'Admitting that your cotton was destroyed by the Federal Army, I do not suppose any-thing could be done for you now. Congress has appropriated no money for that class of claims, and will not, I expect, while the active war lasts.'"

Here are the links to the transcriptions so you may compare the style and wording to the Bixby letter:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/tex...oln8%3A261
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/tex...oln8%3A257

I couldn't find a handwritten version of any which would prove he at least penned those - can anyone else? (Thanks!)