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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln1. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
When I saw you at Washington, I understood that it might be inconvenient for you to attend the Petersburg convention.2Jump to section I have come a little more anxious since I saw you, that the convention shall be full; and I write this to let you know that if it is inconvenient for you to attend, our friend, B. F. James, will willingly
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go as a substitute for you. Please be sure to attend, ``or send a hand'' Yours truly A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ALS-P. ISLA. Williams was a resident of Washington, Tazewell County, Illinois.