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<date value='1864-01-16'>Saturday, January 16, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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Lincoln thanks publishers of "North American Review" for
complimentary copy and calls attention to misunderstanding in article
by James Russell Lowell, that President believes secession absolved
states and people from their obligations.
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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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A265' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Crosby and Henry P. Nichols</xref>, 16 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:132-33.</bibl>
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Receives Anna Dickinson in evening at request of Cong. Kelley (Pa.).
<bibl default='NO'>Kelley to Lincoln, 16 January 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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Attends lecture by Anna Dickinson at Capitol.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles to wife, 17 January 1864, Gideon Welles Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> holds Saturday afternoon reception.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 16 January 1864.</bibl>
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President writes Sen. Edwin D. Morgan (N.Y.): "Please present my
compliments to Judge [John W.] Edmonds, & say to him the books
will be gratefully accepted by me."
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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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A267' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin D. Morgan</xref>, 16 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:133.</bibl>
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