Copy of famed Lincoln letter turns up in Dallas
China Daily | Updated: 2008-11-18 07:51
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Alan Olson, director of Collections with the Dallas Historical Society, holds what is believed to be an official government copy of a letter written by US former president Abraham Lincoln to a grieving Civil War mother, at the Hall of State at Fair Park in Dallas, on Thursday. AP |
A Texas museum hopes a document found in its archives turns out to be an authentic government copy of Abraham Lincoln's eloquent letter consoling a mother thought to have lost five sons in the Civil War.
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