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Abraham Lincoln's 1864 anti-slavery letter was auctioned at $3.4 Million at Sotheby's auction house on March 28, 2008. This letter was the president's response to children asking that he free "all the little slave children".

Lincoln's hand-written reply to a petition by children to free "all the little slave children in this country" surpassed the previous record for a Lincoln manuscript -- the $3.1 million for a document sold by Christie's in March 2002.

It was purchased by an American collector bidding by telephone, Sotheby's said.

"Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not that power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it," Lincoln wrote in the letter.

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