Abraham Lincoln Goes to New YorkStory of the country lawyer's first trip to sophisticated New York, and full text of famous Cooper Union speech he delivered there February 27, 1860. |
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... letter he wrote to Cornelius F. McNeill on April 6 , 1860 , told what his answer was . Part of the letter read : 66 " ... I wrote that I could do it in February , provided they would take a political speech , if I could find time to get ...
... letter he wrote to Cornelius F. McNeill on April 6 , 1860 , told what his answer was . Part of the letter read : 66 " ... I wrote that I could do it in February , provided they would take a political speech , if I could find time to get ...
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... letter to his wife . According to Briggs , Lincoln , upon his return to New York from New England , said to him : " I have seen what all the New York papers said about that thing of mine in the Cooper Institute with the excep- tion of ...
... letter to his wife . According to Briggs , Lincoln , upon his return to New York from New England , said to him : " I have seen what all the New York papers said about that thing of mine in the Cooper Institute with the excep- tion of ...
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... letter to McNeill is from Collected Works , Vol . IV , page 38. Briggs's reply is found in Abraham Lincoln , A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay , The Century Company , New York , 1890 , Vol . II , page 216 . Lincoln's letter to ...
... letter to McNeill is from Collected Works , Vol . IV , page 38. Briggs's reply is found in Abraham Lincoln , A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay , The Century Company , New York , 1890 , Vol . II , page 216 . Lincoln's letter to ...
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