Letters : to Elihu B. Washburne, 1861-1880.

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Letters : to Elihu B. Washburne, 1861-1880.

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Personal letters concern Civil War, politics and political appointments, letters of introduction, Grant's world voyage, 1877-1879 and U.S. relations with France in 1870s.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Washburne, E. B. (Elihu Benjamin), 1816-1887

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