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Abraham Lincoln note to Charles Sumner

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    Abraham Lincoln note to Charles Sumner

    Manuscripts

    Autograph note signed. Enclosed in 1864 April 8 letter of Charles Sumner. (1 page)

    HM 10532

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    Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois, letter to Charles Sumner

    Manuscripts

    Autograph letter signed. Lincoln acknowledges receipt of a copy of Sumner's speech "The Barbarism of Slavery." Bound with copies of engraved portraits of Sumner and Lincoln and photograph portraits of Sumner, copies of engravings of Sumner family residences, a typescript transcript of the letter, a typed explanation of the letter, and a printed chapter 23 from Life of Charles Sumner. (letter 1 page, other material 28 pages)

    HM 23472

  • Abraham Lincoln note requesting work for Gustave A. Balzer

    Abraham Lincoln note requesting work for Gustave A. Balzer

    Manuscripts

    Autograph note signed. Written on fragment of envelope. See Pauline Balzer letter to Judd Stewart, 1910 April 7 (HM 25250) for information on the note's origins (item is not in Lincoln collection).

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  • Abraham Lincoln note on slavery

    Abraham Lincoln note on slavery

    Manuscripts

    Autograph note signed. Possibly originally written in an autograph for a U.S. Sanitary Commission fair (see note in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln).

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  • Austin A. King, Washington, D.C., letter to Abraham Lincoln

    Austin A. King, Washington, D.C., letter to Abraham Lincoln

    Manuscripts

    Autograph letter signed. Request for pardon of John B. Corner of Missouri. Signed and endorsed by Lincoln, 1864 January 27. Includes filing envelope.

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  • Abraham Lincoln note

    Abraham Lincoln note

    Manuscripts

    Autograph note signed. Note regarding beef contractors on envelope with endorsements by officers of the Subsistence Office and Colonel A. Beckwith. With endorsement of Lincoln: "Submitted to the War Department, for Commissary General."

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