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Abraham Lincoln: “I transmit a copy of a dispatch to the Secretary of State from Mr. Adams, United States minister at London, and of the…”

On the recordDecember 17, 1862
I transmit a copy of a dispatch to the Secretary of State from Mr. Adams, United States minister at London, and of the correspondence to which it refers, between that gentleman and Mr. Panizzi, the principal librarian of the British Museum, relative to certain valuable publications presented to the Library of Congress.
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Abraham Lincoln
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