The original manuscript of President Lincoln’s Proclamation, written July 25, 1862 was a prelude to the Emancipation Proclamation.
After President Lincoln composed this proclamation, the draft handwritten copy was delivered to editor, James Clarke Welling, for publication in the National Intelligencer.
As mentioned in a previous post, Lincoln did the same gesture a month later, when he delivers his famous Greeley Letter to Welling who published and then retained the original draft of Greeley Letter throughout his lifetime.
As for the July 25th, 1862 proclamation after he received and published it in the Intelligencer, James C. Welling donated the page torn from history to the New Jersey Committee at the 1864 Great Fair of Philadelphia.
Anne Hampton Brewster’s friend was Genevieve Welling Wigfall, daughter of James Clarke Welling.
References:
Anne Hampton Brewster: 19th-century Author and “Social Outlaw”
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