Letter : Delavan, Ill., to [Abraham] Lincoln, [Springfield, Ill.], 1857 Sept. 17.

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Letter : Delavan, Ill., to [Abraham] Lincoln, [Springfield, Ill.], 1857 Sept. 17.

True copy of autograph letter signed. Signed by Samuel Briggs. Asks for Lincoln's legal opinion about incorporating Delavan as a town.

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