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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 to Jesse K. Dubois

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05277 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Place Written: Bloomington, Illinois Type: Autograph letter signed Date: December 21, 1857 Pagination: 1 p. : Order a Copy

Writes to Dubois, the Illinois State auditor, to get him to accept a $90,000 temporary settlement offer for property taxes due the state of Illinois from the Illinois Central Rail Road Company.

Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. II 1848 - 1858,
p. 429

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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