The Walt Whitman Archive
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Title: Abraham Lincoln
Creators: Walt Whitman, Unknown
Date: March 17, 1865
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03399
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the marginalia and annotations, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe, Ty Alyea, Matt Cohen, and Nicole Gray
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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| keep carefully |
Lincoln's Picture
one of the latest taken before he was shot— th the most satisfactory picture of A. L. I have ever seen, (and I have seen hundreds of different ones)—looks just like I saw him last on the balcony at the National Hotel
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