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HANNIBAL HAMLIN

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HANNIBAL HAMLIN
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>HANNIBAL HAMLIN </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>(1809-1891). Vice President and friend of Abraham Lincoln. An antislavery Democrat, he was compelled to switch parties in 1856. ALS, 1p, 12mo, Bangor, ME, May 19, 1891. To Henry Edes on lightly lined letter paper. Hamlin graciously declines an invitation to attend a Unitarian music festival, adding that the “<i>Maine Unitarian Association will meet here on June 2d and will require all the aid and assistance which I may be able to give — So I must be excused.</i>..” Boldly penned and signed. Light general toning; o/w Fine.</span></p>