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[1] ALS, RPB. William H. H. Scott wrote Lincoln on August 21, 1863, that his niece ``Mrs Kate Sharp of Louisville Kentucky a widow has since her husband deceased become involved in a law suit in which her entire estate is complicated and finds that important witnesses to the successful defence of her suit are within the Rebel lines. . . . Having failed in her application in Kentucky I earnestly beg as a personal favor to myself as well as to a most excellant woman if not inconsistent with the public interest you would grant her a pass throug[h] our lines to Knoxvill[e] Tennessee & to return to Kentucky. . . .'' (DLC-RTL). A letter from Mrs. Kate Sharpe, written from Frankfort, Kentucky, September 19, is also in the Lincoln Papers.