Your subscriber at this place John C Vance, [2] is dead; and no person takes the paper from the office Respectfully,
Blair & Rives. A. LINCOLN P.M.
[1] ALS, Louise Tepar. Blair & Rives were publishers of the Washington, D. C. Congressional Globe.
[2] John C. Vance, a farmer living north of New Salem, Illinois, whose copy of Kirkham's Grammar Lincoln is purported to have studied.
