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Library of Congress Acquires Letters by Martha Washington and Mary Todd Lincoln

22 Oct 2026 11:34 a.m.

The Mary Todd Lincoln letter, written two months before the president's assassination, joins her correspondence collection online, while the 1760 Martha Washington letter is the first in her own hand held in the George Washington Papers.

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