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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
[1] DS, DNA RG 46, Senate 37A F2; DS, DNA RG 233, House Executive Document No. 15. Minister Charles F. Adams' letter to Seward, November 21, 1862, transmitted correspondence with Sir Anthony Panizzi relative to the presentation to the Library of Congress of the early volumes of Description of Ancient Marbles; Select Papyri in the Hieratic Character; and the entire series of zoological catalogs published by the Museum. Lincoln's communication was referred in both Senate and House to the joint committee on the Library.