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            <mods:title>Bates, Edward to Abraham Lincoln</mods:title>
            <mods:subTitle>July 25, 1864</mods:subTitle>
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            <mods:namePart type="date">1793-1869</mods:namePart>
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            <mods:namePart>Lincoln, Abraham</mods:namePart>
            <mods:namePart type="date">1809-1865</mods:namePart>
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            <mods:extent>1 leaf; 21 cm.</mods:extent>
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          <mods:abstract>Bates writes that Lincoln's request for the papers in the Henry Crittenden case did not reach his office until late Saturday evening when the "pardon desk" was locked up. Sends them. (cf. Lincoln, Collected Works, VII, 456.)</mods:abstract>
          <mods:note>A.L.S.</mods:note>
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              <mods:namePart>Lincoln, Abraham</mods:namePart>
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            <mods:geographic>United States</mods:geographic>
            <mods:topic>History</mods:topic>
            <mods:temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</mods:temporal>
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          <mods:subject>
            <mods:geographic>United States</mods:geographic>
            <mods:topic>Politics and government</mods:topic>
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          <mods:identifier displayLabel="Lincoln Document No." type="local">A 38685 1</mods:identifier>
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