Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 3 [Aug. 21, 1858-Mar. 4, 1860].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 3 [Aug. 21, 1858-Mar. 4, 1860].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To Peter Zinn1Jump to section

Peter Zinn, Esq Springfield, Ills.
Dear Sir Sep. 6. 1859

Yours of the 2nd. in relation to my appearing at Cincinnati in behalf of the Opposition is received. I already had a similar letter from Mr. W. T. Bascom, Secretary of the Republican State central committee at Columbus, which I answer to-day.2Jump to section You are in correspondence with him, and will learn all from him. I shall try to speak at Columbus and Cincinnati; but can not do more. Yours truly A. LINCOLN

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[1] ALS, owned by William P. Zinn, Columbus, Ohio. Peter Zinn was an attorney at Delhi, Ohio, and a member of the Republican state central committee.

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[2] Lincoln's letter to William T. Bascom is presumably not extant, but Bascom's letter to Lincoln, September 9, 1859 (DLC-RTL), mentions receiving it. Also a member of the Republican state central committee of Ohio, Bascom was an editor of the Ohio State Journal.

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