Lincoln recommends former landlady: "The bearer of this is a most estimable widow lady, at whose house I boarded many years ago when a member of Congress. She now is very needy; & any employment suitable to a lady could not be bestowed on a more worthy person." [Mrs. Ann G. Sprigg received appointment in Treasury Dept.] Abraham Lincoln to William P. Fessenden, 21 July 1864, CW, 7:454.