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A young girl writes to Abraham Lincoln with a suggestion
The audio below, featuring a reading by Louise Brealey and Mark Strong, is taken from the Letters of Note audiobook.
On this day in 1860, having recently seen a picture of him without facial hair, an 11-year-old girl named Grace Bedell decided to write to Republican candidate and future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, with a single suggestion that would…
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