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Account of Lincoln’s death from a foreigner: April 1865

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Introduction

Ellen Kean was a famous British actress who was in New York at the time of Lincoln’s assassination.  In this letter to her daughter in England, she offers a frank and revealing view of how the shattering national calamity appeared to a relatively disinterested foreigner.

Ellen Kean, autograph letter to Mary Kean concerning Abraham Lincoln’s death
16-18 April 1865
AMs 437/2

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