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<date value='1859-01-27'>Thursday, January 27, 1859.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln buys hairbrush, soap, and "Lubins Extract" at his drug store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 152.</bibl>
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</div2><div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New' TEIform='div2'> <dateline TEIform='dateline'> <date value='1859-01-27' TEIform='date'>Tuesday, January 27, 1863.</date> <place teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline> <p TEIform='p'>Lincoln writes to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton regarding John B. Gordon, whom U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs William P. Dole recommends for a "Military Storekeeper" position. Lincoln notes, "If there be a vacancy, let him have it, unless by some paper on file, I am committed for it to some one else." <bibl>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 27 January 1863, IHi, Springfield, IL; <title>CW</title>, 10:176.</bibl></p> </div2> |

