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The President Is Slain

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Lincoln assassination content letter, Finley Hancock, Ohio, May 7th (1865), 3 pgs, unsigned. Reads in part: "Dear Daughter……I feel like writing with joy in thanks to god for peace so near restored and slavery so near dead, altho our President is slain our god and savior lives and reigns our love and respect ". Fine.

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