Card: Spiegel Grove, Fremont, O[hio], to J[ohn] C[orson] Smith, Chicago, [Ill.], 1889 July.

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Card: Spiegel Grove, Fremont, O[hio], to J[ohn] C[orson] Smith, Chicago, [Ill.], 1889 July.

Aknowledges sympathy message on the death of Hayes' wife Lucy Webb Hayes.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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