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92. Ibid., May 2, 1852.

93. Joseph T. Webb to Hayes, January 22, 1853, Hayes Papers.

94. Hayes, Diary and Letters, I, 438.

95. Hayes to Birchard, January 13, 1853, Hayes Papers.

96. "James Summons v. The State of Ohio," in 5 Ohio State Reports 325-360.

97. Hayes to Birchard, February 22, 1857, Hayes Papers.

98. Hayes Scrapbook, volume 2, page 57, ibid.

99. Enquirer, May 9, 1852.

100. Ibid., June 8, 1852.

101. Ibid., November 24, 1852.

102. Hayes Scrapbook, volume 6, page 75, Hayes Papers.

103. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, December 4, 1853, ibid.

104. Hayes to Birchard, December 25, 1853, ibid.

105. Hayes to Birchard, January 22, 1854, ibid.

106. Sophia Hayes to a cousin, February 15, 1855, Sophia Birchard Hayes Papers.

107. Sophia Hayes to Sardis Birchard, January 4, 1855, Sardis Birchard Papers.

108. R. B. Warden, An Account of the Private Life and Public Services of Salmon

Portland Chase, (Cincinnati, 1874), 345.

109. Hayes Scrapbook, volume 6, page 70, Hayes Papers.

110. C. R. Williams, The Life of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (Boston, 1914), I, ⁹5n.

111. See Cincinnati Times, December 9, 1858, in Hayes Scrapbook, volume 6, page

67a, Hayes Papers.

112. Cincinnati Times, December 16, 1858, in Hayes Scrapbook, volume 6, page 68,

ibid.

113. Cincinnati Occasional, December 10, 1858, in Hayes Scrapbook, volume 6, page

68a, ibid.

114. Hayes to Birchard, December 31, 1858, ibid.

115. Hayes to Birchard, June 24, 1859, ibid.

116. Hayes to Birchard, March 29, 1859, ibid.

117. Hayes to Birchard, April 5, 1859, ibid.

118. Hayes to Sophia Hayes, April 5, 1859, ibid.

119. Hayes to Birchard, March 29, 1861, ibid.

120. Hayes Scrapbook, volume 6, page 69, ibid.

121. Hayes to Birchard, April 10, 1861, ibid.

122. Hayes to Birchard, April 10, 1861; also calling card, ibid.

123. Hayes Scrapbook, volume 6, page 34a and page 38. Newspaper clipping, and

original draft of the resolution in Hayes's autograph, ibid.

124. Hayes to Birchard, April 20, 1861, ibid.

125. Hayes to Birchard, May 16, 1861, ibid.

126. Hayes, Diary and Letters, II, 17.

127. Hayes to Birchard, May 16, 1861, Hayes Papers.

128. Telegrams, Governor William Dennison to Hayes, June 6 and June 9, 1861, in

Hayes Scrapbook, volume 6, pages 61a and 63, ibid.

 

LUCY WEBB HAYES AND HER FAMILY

1. R. B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, August 4, 1851. Hayes Papers, Rutherford B.

Hayes Library.

2. Laura Platt Mitchell, "Lucy Webb Hayes: Reminiscences for Her Grandson by

One of Her Nieces" (53 page typewritten account, [1890]), 2-5, ibid.

Ohio Wesleyan was chartered in 1842 and opened first as a preparatory school.

The college department was organized in 1844. Francis P. Weisenburger, The Passing

of the Frontier, 1825-1850 (Carl Wittke, ed., The History of the State of Ohio, Co-

lumbus, 1941, III,) 178.

3. Term Report for Lucy Webb Hayes, Ohio Wesleyan University. 1845, Haves

Papers.

4. Sophia Hayes to Sardis Birchard, September 2, 1847, ibid.

5. Hayes to Fanny Platt, July 19, 1847, ibid.

6. Hayes to Sophia Hayes, October 16, 1847, ibid.

7. Hayes Diary, January 1, 1850; R. B. Hayes to W. A. Platt, January 14, 1850, ibid.

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8. Mary C. Wilber, "Personal Reminiscences," In Memoriam: Lucy Webb Hayes

(Program of Memorial Service in Wesleyan Memorial Hall, Cincinnati Wesleyan Col-

lege, December 30, 1889).

9. Hayes Diary, May 23, 1851, Hayes Papers.

10. Hayes Diary, June 14, 1851, ibid.

11. Hayes Diary, August 16, and August 21, 1851; Hayes to Lucy Hayes, August 4,

and August 10, 1851, ibid.

12. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, September 5, 1851. This illustrates the current popular-

ity of Dickens' David Copperfield. Hayes answered that the comparison was not a just

one. "You are as far above Dora in all that makes a woman as I am below the original

David..." Hayes to Lucy Hayes, September 9, 1851, Hayes Papers.

13. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, July 19, and July 25, 1852, Hayes Papers.

14. Hayes to Lucy Hayes, July 17, 1852, ibid.

15. Hayes to Lucy Hayes, August 22, 1852, ibid.

16. Hayes to Birchard, September 7, 1852, ibid.

17. Hayes to Birchard, December 3, 1852, ibid.

18. Hayes Diary, December 30, 1852, ibid.

19. Eliza Davis to Birchard Hayes, December 27, 1877, Hayes Papers. The original

dress, yellowed by time, is on display in the Rutherford B. Hayes Library.

20. Hayes to Birchard, January 22, 1853, Hayes Papers.

21. Fanny Platt to Birchard, January 31, 1853. Birchard Papers, Rutherford B.

Hayes Library.

22. Hayes Diary, February 27, 1853, Hayes Papers.

23. Hayes Diary, March 11, 1853, ibid.

24. Margaret Cook Gilmore, "Life of Judge Isaac Cook" (Mimeographed, n. d.),

8, 10-11. Isaac Cook was appointed under the old constitution whereby two citizens

acted as associate judges, theoretically to supplement the legal interpretations of the

president-judge with common sense judgments. Henry Holcomb Bennett, ed., The

County of loss (Madison, Wisconsin, 1902), II, 175.

25. Maria Webb to Matthew T. Scott, December 2, 1833; M. S. Cook to Maria

Webb, March 20, 1844; Hayes Diary, March, 1870, Maria Webb Papers, Rutherford

B. Hayes Library.

26. Hayes Diary, September, 1853, Hayes Papers.

27. Hayes to Fanny Platt, December 25, 1853; Hayes to Birchard, December 25,

1853, ibid.

28. Hayes to Birchard, January 29, and May 14, 1854, ibid.

29. Hayes Diary, September 4, 1854, ibid.

30. Sophia Hayes to Birchard, January 4, 1855, ibid.

31. Fanny Platt to Laura Platt Mitchell, May 6, 1855, Fanny Hayes Platt Papers,

Rutherford B. Hayes Library.

32. Hayes Diary, February 22, 1856, Hayes Papers.

33. Ibid., March 23, 1856.

34. Sophia Hayes to Lucy Hayes and Hayes, June 4, 1856, Hayes Papers.

35. Hayes Diary, July, 1856, ibid.

36. Ibid.

37. Hayes to Birchard, October 18, 1856, ibid.

38. Hayes to Birchard, November 30, and December 9, 1858, ibid.

39. Hayes Diary, June 24, 1858, and July 23, 1858, ibid.

40. Laura C. Holloway, Ladies of the White House      (Philadelphia, 1881), 573;

Mary Clemmer, "A Woman's Letter from     Washington," The Independent, XXXIII

(May 26, 1881), 3.

41. Hayes Diary, December 26, 1858, Hayes Papers.

42. Lucy Hayes to Laura P. Mitchell, March 9, 1860, ibid.

43. Hayes to Laura P. Mitchell, April 20, 1860, ibid.

44. Diary of Rutherford and Lucy Hayes's deferred wedding journey, August 1 to

September 1, 1860, ibid.

45. Hayes to Birchard, April 27, May 5, and July 23, 1859, ibid.

46. Hayes to Sophia Hayes, December 2, 1859, ibid.

47. Sophia Hayes to Birchard, March 30, 1860, ibid.

48. Hayes Diary, December 24, 1860, ibid.

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49. Hayes to Birchard, April 15, 1861, ibid.

50. Lucy Hayes to Laura P. Mitchell, April 15, 1861, ibid.

51. Hayes Diary, May 15, 1861, ibid.

52. Ibid., June 7-13, 1861.

53. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, June 13, 1861, ibid.

54. Hayes to Lucy Hayes, July 2, 1861, ibid.

55. Hayes Diary, July 25, 1861, ibid.

56. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, November 4, 1861, ibid.

57. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, November 24, 1861, ibid.

58. Joseph T. Webb to Hayes, December 10, 1861. J. T. Webb Papers, Hayes

Library.

59. Hayes to Lucy Hayes, December 23, 1861, Hayes Papers.

60. Emily Geer, "Lucy Webb Hayes: An Unexceptionable Woman" (unpublished

doctoral dissertation, Western Reserve University, 1962), 84.

61. Hayes to Lucy Hayes, February 14, 1862, Hayes Papers.

62. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, June 4, 1862, ibid.

63. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, April 22, 1862, ibid.

64. Hayes to Lucy Hayes, August 18-19, 1862, ibid.; Joseph T. Webb to Lucy Hayes,

August 21, 1862, J. T. Webb Papers, Hayes Library.

65. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, August 29, 1862, Hayes Papers.

66. Hayes Diary, September 18, 1862, ibid.

67. Lucy E. Keeler, "Mrs. Hayes's Hunt after the Colonel," (typed manuscript, 1927),

Rutherford B. Hayes Library. This supplements Mrs. Hayes's own story of the incident.

68. Lucy Hayes, "Lucy's Search for Her Husband" (typed, ca. 1880), Hayes Papers.

Unless indicated otherwise, the information concerning this incident is from Mrs. Hayes's

manuscript.

69. L. E. Keeler, "Mrs. Hayes' Hunt after the Colonel," 11.

70. Hayes to Lucy Hayes, December 1, 1862; Hayes to Birchard, January 4, 1863,

Hayes Papers.

71. Lucy Hayes to Birchard, January 25, 1863, ibid.

72. Hayes Diary, March 15, 1863, ibid.

73. Hayes to Birchard, February 8, 1863, ibid.

74. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, April 8 [1863], ibid.

75. Hayes Diary, June 25, 1863, ibid.

76. Lucy E. Keeler, "Lucy Webb Hayes; Her Family, Life and Letters" (unpub-

lished manuscript, 1904), 17, Rutherford B. Hayes Library.

77. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, July 18 [1863], Hayes Papers.

78. Lucy Hayes to Birchard Hayes, December 18, 1863, ibid.

79. Mrs. Joseph E. Barrett, "Memories of the Civil War" (typed manuscript, n. d.),

Hayes Library.

80. Hayes Diary, April 30, 1864, Hayes Papers; D. B. Ainger to William T. Crump,

March 20, 1890, Hayes Library.

81. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, May 6, 1864, Hayes Papers.

82. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, May 26, 1864, ibid.

83. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, June 15, 1864, ibid.

84. Hayes to Lucy W. Hayes, July 5, 1864, ibid.

85. Lucy Hayes to S. Birchard, August 10, 1864, ibid.

86. Hayes to William H. Smith, August 24, 1864. W. H. Smith Papers, Ohio His-

torical Society Library [photostatic copy in Rutherford B. Hayes Library].

87. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, August 30, 1864, Hayes Papers.

88. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, September 8, and September 13, 1864, ibid.

89. Hayes to Lucy Hayes, August 23, and September 9, 1864, ibid.

90. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, October 18, 1864, ibid.

91. Charles R. Williams, The Life of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, (Columbus, 1928

[originally published 1914]), I, n. 1, 257-258. The poem referred to is Thomas B. Read's

"Sheridan's Ride."

92. Williams, Life, I, 264-265.

93. Hayes to Lucy Hayes, December 9, 1864, Hayes Papers.

94. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, December 21, 1864, ibid.

95. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, April 17, 1865, ibid.

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96. Lucy Hayes to Maria Webb, May 26, 1865, ibid. Sheridan was in command of

American forces on the Mexican border watching the struggle between Emperor Maxi-

millian and the Mexican Liberals seeking to overthrow him.

97. Ibid.

98. Lucy Hayes to "My dear boys and Grandma," January 29 [1866], ibid.

99. Hayes to Sophia Hayes, February 4, 1866, ibid.

100. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, March 25, 1866, ibid.

101. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, March 18, and April 1, 1866, ibid.

102. Hayes Diary, May 24, 1866, ibid.

103. James D. Webb to Joseph T. Webb, September 15, 1866. J. D. Webb Papers,

Rutherford B. Hayes Library.

104. Sophia Hayes Diary, co. October 31, 1866. (Nomination closing her diary in

handwriting of R. B. Hayes), ibid.

105. Letter from  Lucy Hayes to "My dear dear boys" [November 1866]), Hayes

Papers.

106. Joseph T. Webb to Lucy Hayes, December 16, 1866. (Dr. Joe quoted from

Birch's letter to him.) J. T. Webb Papers, Rutherford B. Hayes Library.

107. Hayes to Birchard, June 20, 1867, Hayes Papers.

108. Hayes to Lucy Hayes, July 2, and July 11, 1867, ibid.

109. Hayes Diary, September 2, 1888; Hayes to Lucy Hayes, September 8, 1867, ibid.

110. Hayes Diary, January 4, 1868, ibid.

111. Lucy Hayes to James D. Webb, August 9, 1869, ibid.

112. Draft of letter from Lucy Hayes to General J. W. Keifer, August 16, 1868, ibid.

113. Hayes Diary, November 28, 1869, ibid.

114. Hayes to Rev. Mr. Bushnell, November 26, 1869 (Hayes Letterbook), Ruther-

ford B. Hayes Library.

115. Lucy Hayes to Webb Hayes, August 1, 1870, Hayes Papers.

116. Hayes to Webb Hayes, April 19, 1869, ibid.

117. Hayes Diary, February 8, 1871, ibid.

118. Hayes to James D. Webb, June 3, 1870, ibid.

119. Hayes Diary, November 28, 1869, ibid.

120. Birchard Hayes to Lucy Hayes, August 16, 1869, ibid.

121. Birchard Hayes to Hayes, January 19, 1873, ibid.

122. Hayes to Lucy W. Hayes, October 4, 1870, ibid.

123. Hayes Diary, August 2, 1873, ibid.

124. Lucy Hayes to Webb Hayes, October 28, and November 9, 1873, ibid.

125. Hayes Diary, August 25, and August 28, 1874, ibid.

126. Lucy Hayes to "My dear boys" [Birch and Webb] [1874], ibid.

127. Lucy Hayes to Birchard Hayes, June 2, 1874, ibid.

128. Lucy Hayes to R. B. Hayes, October 25, 1875, ibid.

129. Lucy Hayes to "My Dear Boy" [Birch], November 28, 1875, ibid.

130. Lucy Hayes to Mrs. L. C. Austin, May 1, 1876; Lucy Hayes to Birchard Hayes

[April 12, 1876], ibid.

131. New York Herald quoted in the Fremont Weekly Journal, July 7, 1876.

132. Mrs. L. C. Austin to Lucy Hayes, November 10, 1876, Hayes Papers.

133. Lucy Hayes to Birchard Hayes, February 6, 1877, ibid.

134. Harry Barnard, Rutherford B. Hayes and His America (Indianapolis, 1954),

402-403.

135. The eight referred to were: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison,

Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Adams, Sarah Polk, Mary Lincoln, and Julia Grant. Informa-

tion about the wives of Presidents from the following: Laura Holloway, Ladies of the

White House (Philadelphia, 1882); Bess Furman, White House Profile (Indianapolis,

1951); Marianne Means, The Woman in the White House (New York, 1963); Kath-

leen Prindiville, First Ladies (New York, 1955); Jane Tompkins and Burt McConnell,

Our First Ladies (New York, 1953).

136. Mary Clemmer, "A Woman's Letter from Washington, 'The Inaugural.'" The

Independent, March 15, 1877, p. 2.

137. Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 28, 1877.

138. Williams, Life, II, 300-301.

139. H. J. Eckenrode, Rutherford B. Hayes: Statesman of Reunion     (New York,

1930), 312.

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140. Hayes Diary, May 23, 1851, Hayes Papers.

141. Laura P. Mitchell, "Memorandum of a typical day at the White House,"

Rutherford B. Hayes Library.

142. Barnard, Hayes and His America, 479-480.

143. Curtis C. MacDonald, "Ansequago, A Biograhy of Sardis Birchard" (unpub-

lished doctoral dissertation, Western Reserve University, 1958), 263.

144. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, June 24 [1854], Hayes Papers.

145. Hayes Diary, July 21, 1870, ibid.

146. Hayes Diary, December 10, 1864, ibid.

147. Barnard, Hayes and His America, 480.

148. Charles R. Williams, ed., Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Co-

lumbus, 1924), III, 639-640, 644-645. Hereinafter cited as Hayes, Diary and Letters.

149.  Ibid., III, 525.

150. Williams, Life, II, 324.

151. Ibid., 241-243.

152. Margarita Spalding Gerry, Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of

Colonel Wm. H. Crook (New York, 1910), 250-252.

153. Accounts of the celebration taken from: Furman, White House Profile, 221;

Gerry, Through Five Administrations, 246; Holloway, Ladies of the While House, 655-

658; Hayes, Diary and Letters, III, 456-457; Williams, Life II, 318-321; Cleveland Plain

Dealer, January 5, 1878.

154. Julia Bundy Foraker, I Would Live It Again: Memories of a Vivid Life (New

York, 1932), 69-70. It is doubtful if Mrs. Hayes ever played the accompaniment but

often she led the singing.

155. Carl Wittke, "Carl Schurz and Rutherford B. Hayes," Ohio Historical Quar-

terly, LXV (October 1956), 350.

156. "Memoirs of Thomas C. Donaldson" (transcribed copy in Rutherford B. Hayes

Library), 17.

157. Charles Hurd, The White House: A Biography (New York, 1940), 186, 189.

158. Rutherford Platt Hayes, "The Age of Innocence in the White House," Literary

Digest, February 5, 1927, p. 41.

159. Ibid.

160. Gerry, Through Five Administrations, 226.

161. R. P. Hayes, "Age of Innocence," 41.

162. Gerry, Through Five Administrations, 226.

163. Ibid, 227.

164. Letter from Lucy Hayes to Birchard Hayes, March 26 [1879], Hayes Papers.

165. Elizabeth Donnan and Leo F. Stock, eds., An Historian's World: Selections

from the Correspondence of John Franklin Jameson (Philadelphia, 1956), 18.

166. New York Daily Graphic, June 17 and 19; Cincinnati Commercial, June 20,

1878. Scrapbook News Clippings, Rutherford B. Hayes Library.

167. Incoming letters to Lucy Hayes, 1877-1881, ibid.

168. Margaret Harrington, "Lucy Webb Hayes as First Lady of the United States"

(unpublished master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 1956), 69-74.

169. Thomas F. Pendel, Thirty-Six Years in the White House (Washington, 1902),

93.

170. Lucy Hayes to Birchard Hayes, August 15 [1880].

171. Holloway, Ladies of the White House, 662.

172. Lucy Hayes photograph album. Rutherford B. Hayes Library.

173. White House Porcelain Service, a pamphlet prepared by Haviland and Co.

(New York, 1879), 53.

174. Foraker, I Would Live It Again, 74-75.

175. Receipts for Mrs. Hayes's White House gowns, Rutherford B. Hayes Library.

176. Wittke, "Carl Schurz and Rutherford B. Hayes," 350, 355.

177. Lucy Hayes to Hayes, March 12, 1880, Hayes Papers.

178. In 1880, Mrs. Hayes was elected president of the newly formed Woman's

Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but she was not active in the

position until 1884. She continued to serve as national president until her death in

1889.

179. Mitchell, "Reminiscences," Rutherford B. Hayes Library.

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180. Lucy Hayes to Fanny Hayes, November 26, 1885; note added by Hayes, Hayes

Papers.

181. Lucy Hayes to Fanny Hayes, February 4, 1886, Hayes Papers.

182. Mitchell, "Reminiscences," Rutherford B. Hayes Library.

183. William H. Smith, memo of a conversation between Hayes and Smith, August

9, 1890, ibid.

184. Lucy E. Keeler, "Account of the Last Hours of Lucy W. Hayes," manuscript

written at the request of R. B. Hayes, 1889, ibid; Hayes, Diary and Letters, IV, 471-474.

185. Webb Hayes to Elizabeth Tod, July 5, 1889, draft of letter in Webb Hayes

Papers, Rutherford B. Hayes Library.

 

GOVERNOR RUTHERFORD B. HAYES

1. Charles R. Williams, ed., Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Columbus,

1924), III, 39. Hereinafter cited as Hayes, Diary and Letters.

2. Ibid., 25.

3. State of Ohio, General and Local Laws and Joint Resolutions (Columbus, 1867),

328-329.

4. Warren Bateman to W. H. Smith, April 28, 1867. William Henry Smith Collec-

tion, Collection 2, Box 3, Ohio Historical Society.

5. Hayes, Diary and Letters, III, 39-40.

6. Ibid., III, 41.

7. Hayes unrealistically and perhaps purposefully made no reference as to how

this might be accomplished.

8. Hayes, Diary and Letters, III, 39.

9.  Ibid., III, 42-43.

10. Morning Journal (Columbus), August 6, 1867.

11. See the Gazelle (Cincinnati), Commercial (Cincinnati), and Enquirer (Cin-

cinnati), June 10, 1867, et seq.

12. Morning Journal, July 8, 1867.

13. Ibid., August 27, September 11, 1867.

14. Ohio Statesman (Columbus), August 6, 1867.

15. Ibid., July 17, 26, 1867.

16. Mac-a-Cheek Press, 1867; Morning Journal, October 29, 1867.

17. Morning Journal, December 31, September 18, 1867; Mary R. Dearing, Veterans

in Politics (Baton Rouge, 1952), 113; T. D. McGillicuddy, comp. and ed., Proceedings

of the Annual and Semi-annual Encampments of the Department of the Ohio Grand

Army of the Republic (Columbus, 1912), 4.

18. New York Times, October 10, 1867; New York World, October 10, 1867; New

York Commercial, October 10, 1867.

19. On November 17, 1868, Hayes moved from this house to that of Judge Swayne

on Seventh Street at the head of State Street on the present site of the Columbus

Public Library where "the rent is cheap," $800 a year. Hayes, Diary and Letters, III, 74.

20. Francis R. Aumann and Harvey Walker, The Government and Administration

of Ohio (New York, 1956), 88-89

21. William Henry Smith Collection, Collection 2, Box 15.

22. Morning Journal, January 7, 1868.

23. Ibid., January 14, 1868.

24. Hayes, Diary and Letters, III, 51; Morning Journal, August 27, 1868.

25. McGillicuddy, Proceedings, 12-15.

26. Morning Journal, July 4, 1868.

27. Hayes, Diary and Letters, III, 55.

28. Morning Journal, November 24, 1868.

29. State of Ohio, General and Local Laws and Joint Resolutions Passed by the

Fifty-eighth General Assembly (Columbus, 1868, 1869).

30. Morning Journal, June 24, 1869.

31. Ibid., August 13, 1869.

32. Ohio Statesman, July 8, 1869.

33. Morning Journal, September 13, 1869.

34. Speech, General George A. Sheridan, Bellefontaine, ibid., September 18, 1869.

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