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Yours received. I have felt constrained to answer repeated invitations to attend the great Fair at your city, that I can not be present
at it's opening, and that whether I can during it's continuance must depend on circumstances. A. LINCOLN
[1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 67. Cornelius A. Walborn, postmaster at Philadelphia, telegraphed on May 27, 1864: ``The Hon John Welsh, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Great Central fair has requested me to ask if you have received his letter in relation to attending the fair---an immediate answer will oblige the committee'' (DLC-RTL). Welsh's telegram (not letter) of May 23, 1864, is also in the Lincoln Papers