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<date value='1835-11-03'>Tuesday,
November 3, 1835.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.
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<p> Lincoln writes to Francis P. Blair, Sr., and John
C. Rives of Washington, D.C.: "Your subscriber at this place
<uLine>John C. Vance</uLine>, is dead; and no person takes the
paper ["Congressional Globe"] from the office [.]"
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A56' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Francis
P. Blair, Sr. and John C. Rives</xref>, 3 November 1835,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:38.</bibl>
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<date value='1835-11-10'>Tuesday, November 10, 1835.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.
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<p> Lincoln writes Gov. Joseph Duncan: "Understanding that Mr. Levi Davis of
Vandalia, is an applicant for the office of Auditor of Public Accounts, I take the
liberty to say to you, that his appointment to that office would be entirely
satisfactory to me, and, I doubt not, to most others who are the friends of
qualification [<uLine>sic</uLine>] and—merit—" [Davis
is appointed November 16, 1835.]<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A57' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph
Duncan</xref>, 10 November 1835, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:38.</bibl>
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