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[–] axont@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Oh my god, thank you. I'm also tired of how it gets phrased. Marx and Lincoln didn't have correspondence. Marx sent him a congratulations letter because he admired Lincoln. The reply was generic and probably something sent to everyone who sent a congratulations. Lincoln probably got hundreds of thousands of similar letters and it's highly unlikely he saw Marx's letter or even knew about it.

You're right, if he knew of Marx it would have been through the New-York Tribune. There's a good chance that Lincoln read Marx's coverage of the Crimean War, since it was basically the only coverage in English available to Americans.