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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2 [Sept. 3, 1848-Aug. 21, 1858].

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Title
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2 [Sept. 3, 1848-Aug. 21, 1858].
Author
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2 [Sept. 3, 1848-Aug. 21, 1858]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln2. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2025.

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To William H. Davenport1

W. H. Davenport, Esq. Springfield,
Dear Sir May 22. 1858

Yours of the 14th. is just received. In your case at Danville, I got just so far, and no farther, than to be ready to take testimony for the next term. I guess we will have to take the deposition of the

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man on the land. (I forget his name just now) We want to prove by him that he was not notified of his entry being cancelled.

At this sitting I write Judge Harriott2 about your father's3 business. Yours truly A. LINCOLN

Annotation

[1]   ALS, owned by Philip D. Neiswender, San Clemente, California. William H. Davenport was a farmer near Eureka, Illinois.

[2]   James Harriott, judge of the Twenty-first Circuit.

[3]   Reverend William Davenport.

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