Selected Correspondance of Abraham Lincoln 1863 Telegram To Mary Gonyeag
by Abraham Lincoln
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, December 15, 1863.
MOTHER MARY GONYEAG, Superior, Academy of Visitation,
Keokuk, Iowa:
The President has no authority as to whether you may raffle for the
benevolent object you mention. If there is no objection in the Iowa
laws, there is none here.