Letter : Indiana Mineral Springs, Ind., to Joseph H. Barrett, n.p., 1897 Dec. 16.

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Letter : Indiana Mineral Springs, Ind., to Joseph H. Barrett, n.p., 1897 Dec. 16.

Autograph letter signed. Medill recalls that Norman B. Judd nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency of the United States at the first Republican National Convention. He also writes that the Tribune's copies of John L. Locke's Life of Abraham Lincoln were destroyed the Chicago fire of 1871.

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University of Chicago Library

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