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[LINCOLN, Abraham, 1809-1865, association]. Autograph Letter Signed with a Passage about Lincoln’s Assassination. [N.p.]: April the 17/1865 (two days after the assassination). Addressed “Dear Father & Mother Brothers and Sisters”. Signed “from your loving Dear and Sister A Dieu Robecca A Laminee [?]”. Two 8vo pages on one 8vo leaf. Approximately 8 x 5”. Toned, some marginal chipping, three horizontal creases. The passage about the assassination is near the beginning of the letter and is as follows: “Oh yes I suppose that you have herd [sic] The news a bout Lincoln being killed. A person can’t rejoice over it for they would hang them There was a lady that they were going to hang in Muncie for saying She was glad that he was killed and they hung to [sic] men in Indianapolis till they was nearly dead and then let them go for reforming [?] It is dredful [sic] how they have made the democrats [?] come down small.” Letter was apparently written by Confederate sympathizers or citizens.