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English: Letter from William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States under Abraham Lincoln, to Joseph Heco. From the book The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years., by Joseph Heco. The image was converted from a PCX bitmap format, with levels and contrast adjusted in order to improve the clarity of the image. |
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Washington Sept. 25, 1865
My dear Mr Heco,
I have just received
your letter of the 31st of July and
I thank you for remembering
me among the troubled concerns
yet in the midst of the pleasing
climes of your far away native
Home. Our father in Heaven
has allowed our country to
be afflicted, but He has never–
theless remembered mercy, and (continued here)
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