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<date value='1863-01-19'>Monday, January 19, 1863.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President replies to laudatory address from
workingmen of Manchester, England: "It is now a pleasant duty to acknowledge
the demonstration you have given of your desire that a spirit of peace and
amity towards this country may prevail in the councils of your Queen." <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A117' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to the Workingmen of Manchester, England</xref>, 19 January 1863,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:63-65.</bibl>
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<p> In
afternoon J. E. Murdoch gives patriotic readings to select group at White
House. In evening President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>
attend readings in Senate. Murdoch reads "Sleeping Sentinel" by Francis De Haes
Janvier. <bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 544; Washington Chronicle, 20 January 1863.</bibl>
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