Abraham LincolnThis volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces- the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican State Convention Speech and the Emancipation Proclamation - but hundreds of lesser-known ones, including excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, letters to Grant, McClellan, Stanton and his wife, and various meditations, verses and fragments. |
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Page 146
... writes all the letters he can him- self ; but gets every body else in Louisville and vicinity to be constantly writing to us about his claim . I ... write you the news , which he 146 ABRAHAM LINCOLN : Letter to Joshua F Speed, July 4, 1842.
... writes all the letters he can him- self ; but gets every body else in Louisville and vicinity to be constantly writing to us about his claim . I ... write you the news , which he 146 ABRAHAM LINCOLN : Letter to Joshua F Speed, July 4, 1842.
Page 259
... write . I received both your [ letters , and ] although I have not answered them , it is no [ t because ] I have forgotten them , or been uninterested about them - but because it appeared to me I could write nothing which could do any ...
... write . I received both your [ letters , and ] although I have not answered them , it is no [ t because ] I have forgotten them , or been uninterested about them - but because it appeared to me I could write nothing which could do any ...
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... writing that sounds suf- ficiently like Lincoln to merit the comparison , there is simply no ground for supposing that he could , or even had any desire to , write so . The editor has yet to find in Hay's letters any evidence that Hay ...
... writing that sounds suf- ficiently like Lincoln to merit the comparison , there is simply no ground for supposing that he could , or even had any desire to , write so . The editor has yet to find in Hay's letters any evidence that Hay ...
Contents
Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
Copyright | |
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