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The letter, addressed to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and describing the explorer&#8217;s discoveries in the New World, was one of 16 copies made at the time of the original missive on Columbus&#8217;s orders. Stolen from the National Library of Catalonia in Barcelona in 2004 or 2005, the document was handed over late Wednesday to the Spanish ambassador to Washington, US officials said. 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