Abraham Lincoln

Edited by

Arthur Brooks Lapsley

With an Introduction by
Theodore Roosevelt

Together with

The Essay on Lincoln, by Carl Schurz
The Address on Lincoln, by Joseph H. Choate
and The Life of Lincoln, by Noah Brooks

COPYRIGHT, 1905

BY

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

E457 .91 1905f V. 2

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Verses Written by Lincoln after a Visit to His Old Home

in Indiana (a Fragment)

Verses Written by Lincoln concerning a Schoolfellow

who became Insane (a Fragment).

To Joshua F. Speed, October 22d.

1847

To William H. Herndon, December 5th

To William H. Herndon, December 13th

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Resolutions in the House of Representatives, December
22d

1848

Remarks in the House of Representatives, January 5th.

To William H. Herndon, January 8th.

Speech in the House of Representatives, January 12th

Report in the House of Representatives, January 19th.

To William H. Herndon, January 19th

To William H. Herndon, February 1st

To William H. Herndon, February 2d.

To William H. Herndon, February 15th

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Report in the House of Representatives, March 9th

Report in the House of Representatives, March 9th

Remarks in the House of Representatives, March 29th.

To Archibald Williams, April 30th

Remarks in the House of Representatives, May 11th

To Rev. J. M. Peck, May 21st

To Archibald Williams, June 12th

Speech in the House of Representatives, June 20th

To William H. Herndon, June 22d

Remarks in the House of Representatives, June 28th
Fragment, July

To William H. Herndon, July 10th

Speech in the House of Representatives, July 27th

Speech Delivered at Worcester, Mass., September 12th.

To Thomas Lincoln, December 24th

1849

Bill to Abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia,

January 16th.

Remarks in the House of Representatives, February

To the Secretary of the Treasury, March 9th

To the Secretary of State, March 10th

To the Secretary of the Interior, April 7th

To the Secretary of the Interior, April 7th

To the Postmaster-General, April 7th

To the Secretary of the Interior, April 7th

To Thompson, April 25th

To the Secretary of the Interior, May 10th

To Joseph Gillespie, May 19th

To E. Embree, May 25th

Improved Method of Lifting Vessels over Shoals

To the Secretary of the Interior, June 3d

To William H. Herndon, June 5th

To Joseph Gillespie, July 13th

Resolutions of Sympathy with the Cause of Hungarian

Freedom, September [12th ?]

To Dr. William Fithian, September 14th

To, Esq., December 15th

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