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If any vessel has been cleared from New-York for Mobile within this year, send by mail immediately copies of every paper and entry you have, about it. If no such clearance has been given, simply say ``No'' by telegraph.
[1] AD, OClWHi. The following endorsement written in pencil, appears on the bottom of the sheet:
``The above was written by Mr Lincoln in my presence as the substance of a letter sent to Collr. of N.Y. GEO HARRINGTON
``no com next day by Tel''
This document was probably written sometime after the fall of Fort Morgan on August 5, 1864.