A. Lincoln, Prairie LawyerAuthor makes use of the Herndon-Weik Papers, first opened to the public in 1942, and of the Robert Todd Lincoln Collection, which was not accessible until 1947, in the biography of Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer. |
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Page 48
... written by Lincoln and turned out by the Sangamo Journal , charging that Adams had acquired the Anderson property by fraud . Prior to that , some- one , writing under the nom de plume of " Sampson's Ghost , " had conducted against Adams ...
... written by Lincoln and turned out by the Sangamo Journal , charging that Adams had acquired the Anderson property by fraud . Prior to that , some- one , writing under the nom de plume of " Sampson's Ghost , " had conducted against Adams ...
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... written by Herndon to Theodore Parker , the left - wing Congregationalist minister , in the early part of 1858. Writing from Springfield on January eighth , he said : " What I write to you is always written in my office amid bluster ...
... written by Herndon to Theodore Parker , the left - wing Congregationalist minister , in the early part of 1858. Writing from Springfield on January eighth , he said : " What I write to you is always written in my office amid bluster ...
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... written about Lincoln's connection with this itinerant form of law practice which , regrettably , has completely disappeared from what we sometimes call the American scene . In 1892 , a generation after Lincoln had quit the circuit ...
... written about Lincoln's connection with this itinerant form of law practice which , regrettably , has completely disappeared from what we sometimes call the American scene . In 1892 , a generation after Lincoln had quit the circuit ...
Contents
Early Contacts | 3 |
The Shape of Things to Come | 21 |
Stuart Lincoln | 35 |
Copyright | |
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