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APPENDIX.
Letters from Mrs. Lincoln to Mrs. Keckley.
"Chicago, Sunday Morning, Oct. 6.
"My dear Lizzie:—I am writing this morning with a broken heart after a sleepless night of great mental suffering. R. came up last evening like a maniac, and almost threatening his life, looking like death, because the letters of the World were published in yesterday's paper. I could not refrain from weeping when I saw him so miserable. But yet, my dear good Lizzie, was it not to protect myself and help others—and was not my motive and action of the purest kind?
