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 November 12, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-0608 MG18-435 to MG18-436

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1861-02-01 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Louisville February 1st 1861. To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of Kentucky.

I have before me a letter from my kind friend Judge Mason Brown saying that he handed my letter to your Excellency, That you received and read it with much kindness and politeness and requested me to call your attention to the subject on the first of February. I now sincerely hope your Excellency will mercifully grant the promised pardon to Patrick Donnelly. His anxious mother counts the hours that still separate her from her child. I shall ever gratefully remember how kindly and courteously you received the

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Petition last Summer.

Hoping your Excellency will now show that clemency we so much desire I remain

very Respectfully Sallie M. Whittingham

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Issue pardon B. M