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LETTER TO MARY OWENS Springfield , May 7 , 1837 VRIEND MARY : FI I have commenced two letters to send you before this , both of which displeased me before I got half done , and so I tore them This thing of living in Springfield is ...
LETTER TO MARY OWENS Springfield , May 7 , 1837 VRIEND MARY : FI I have commenced two letters to send you before this , both of which displeased me before I got half done , and so I tore them This thing of living in Springfield is ...
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This thing of living in Springfield is rather a dull business , after all ; at least it is to me . I am quite as lonesome here as I ever was anywhere in my life . I have been spoken to by but one woman since I have been here ...
This thing of living in Springfield is rather a dull business , after all ; at least it is to me . I am quite as lonesome here as I ever was anywhere in my life . I have been spoken to by but one woman since I have been here ...
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... a still more unusual tear on his furrowed cheek , ” said Ward Lamon , who witnessed the sad parting when Lincoln , pausing on the rear platform of his train , addressed these few , unprepared words to his friends in Springfield .
... a still more unusual tear on his furrowed cheek , ” said Ward Lamon , who witnessed the sad parting when Lincoln , pausing on the rear platform of his train , addressed these few , unprepared words to his friends in Springfield .
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| Title | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: As Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | H. Jack Lang |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1965 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 11 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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