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[1] AES, DLC-RTL. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a letter from George Opdyke and Hiram Walbridge, August 23, 1862, recommending James A. Briggs for arbitrator under the slave trade treaty with Great Britain. See Lincoln to Seward, August 11, supra.