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[1] LS copy, DLC-RTL. See Lincoln to Seymour, August 27, infra. Seymour's letter to Lincoln, August 21, 1863, reiterated his objections to the execution of the draft, and among numerous particulars stated that ``On Monday of this week---the 17th instant---I learned, through the public journals, that a draft would be made on Wednesday, the 19th instant, in the Sixth District of New York. This was the first notice I received of that proceeding.'' (OR, III, III, 703). Footnotes to this sentence as printed in the source give James B. Fry's statements that ``On the 12th I notified him that orders were issued to resume the draft for quotas, as designated in the President's letter [Lincoln to Seymour, August 11, supra]. . . . On the 16th I wrote from New York City and told him the drawing would begin on Wednesday, 19th instant.'' (Ibid.).