Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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[1] AES, DNA RG 204, U.S. Pardon Attorney, A 495. Lincoln's endorsements are written on the envelope containing Fessenden's letter of December 4, 1863, transmitting a petition for pardon of Josiah M. Sargent sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for robbing a post office. On Fessenden's letter appears the following endorsement by John Hay dated December 11: ``The President directs me to request that you will cause a pardon to be prepared in this case, unless there appear to you reasons to the contrary.''