Lincoln to editor: thanks for the support

A letter sent in 1861 from Abraham Lincoln to New York Herald publisher James Gordon Bennett has gone up for sale. It suggests that the president understood the value of keeping the press on side during the civil war: "I write this to assure you that the administration will not discriminate against the Herald, especially while it sustains us so generously, and the cause of the country so ably as it has been doing." (Via E&P)