Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2.

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Title
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2.
Author
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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To Paul Cornell, Charles B. Waite, and John A. Jameson1Jump to section

Messrs. Cornell, Waite & Jameson Springfield
Chicago, Ills. June 2. 1857.

Gentlemen: Yours of the 29th. was duly received. This morning I went to the Register with four hundred dollars in gold in my hand and tendered to the Register of the Land Office a written application to enter the land, as you requested, all which the Register declined. I have made a written memorandum of the facts, deposited the gold with J. Bunn2Jump to section (who furnished it to me on the draft

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you sent) and took his Certificate of deposite, which certificate and memorandum I hold subject to your order.

Now, if you please, send me ten dollars, as a fee. Yours Truly

A. LINCOLN

Annotation

[1]   Copy, DLC-HW. Cornell, Waite & Jameson was a leading law firm in Chicago.

[2]   Jacob Bunn.

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