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Richard Townsend writes to a cousin predicting that the electorate will be disappointed in Lincoln and acknowledging that he had voted against him in the recent election.

The engraved portrait, signed and inscribed in pencil A. Lincoln with additional ink inscription: "To W.M. Kasson/Feby 18th 1861" written on a small slip attached to the bottom of the image is enclosed in a contemporary gutta-percha decorative hinged…