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Dear Sir:---Your kind letter of the 25th ult., and the express package containing the bronze medal of Mr. Clay, both came safely to hand this morning.
Permit me, in the first place, to return you my heartfelt thanks for your goodness in sending me this valuable present; and secondly,
to express the extreme gratification I feel in possessing so beautiful a memento of him whom, during my whole political life, I have loved and revered as a teacher and leader. Your ob't servant,
A. LINCOLN.