Letters, 1864.

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Letters, 1864.

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Letter addressed to William Barns, January 19, 1864 with attached document regarding President Lincoln's donation of the first draft of the preliminary emancipation proclamation, dated September 22, 1862, to the Albany Army Relief Bazaar. It details the procedures for selling the preliminary emancipation proclamation by special lottery in which 5000 tickets would be sold at one dollar apiece to raise funds for the benefit of the United State Sanitary Commission during the Civil War.

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