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To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit a copy of a despatch to the Secretary of State from Mr. Adams, United States Minister at London, and of the correspondence to which it refers, between that gentleman and Mr. Panizzi, the Principal Librarian of the British Museum, relative to
certain valuable publications presented to the Library of Congress.
Washington, 18 December 1862. ABRAHAM LINCOLN