Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase, June 30, 1864

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    Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase, June 30, 1864, Washington, DC, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 7:420, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.
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    Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler
    Adapted by Brenna McKelvey, Dickinson College
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    The following transcript has been adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953).
    Hon. Salmon P. Chase Executive Mansion,

    My dear Sir. Washington, June 30, 1864.

    Your resignation of the office of Secretary of the Treasury, sent me yesterday, is accepted. Of all I have said in commendation of your ability and fidelity, I have nothing to unsay; and yet you and I have reached a point of mutual embarrassment in our official relation which it seems can not be overcome, or longer sustained, consistently with the public service.

    Your Obt. Servt. A. LINCOLN
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