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Title: Lincoln Letters

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Release Date: May, 2005 [EBook #8110]
Posting Date: July 27, 2009

Language: English

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LINCOLN LETTERS

By Abraham Lincoln

Published by The Bibilophile Society

NOTE

The letters herein by Lincoln are so thoroughly characteristic of
the man, and are in themselves so completely self-explanatory, that
it requires no comment to enable the reader fully to understand and
appreciate them. It will be observed that the philosophical
admonitions in the letter to his brother, Johnston, were written on
the same sheet with the letter to his father.

The promptness and decision with which Lincoln despatched the
multitudinous affairs of his office during the most turbulent
scenes of the Civil War are exemplified in his unequivocal order to
the Attorney-General, indorsed on the back of the letter of Hon.
Austin A. King, requesting a pardon for John B. Corner. The
indorsement bears even date with the letter itself, and Corner was
pardoned on the following day.

THE ORIGINALS FROM WHICH THE WITHIN FACSIMILES WERE MADE ARE IN THE
COLLECTION OF MR. WILLIAM K. BIXBY, AND THROUGH HIS COURTESY THEY
ARE REPRODUCED FOR MEMBERS OF THE BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY

[Illustration: 01 TO HIS FATHER]

[Illustration: 02 TO HIS BROTHER]

[Illustration: 03 TO HIS BROTHER]

Washington, Dec. 24th, 1848.

My dear father:--

Your letter of the 7th was received night before last. I very
cheerfully send you the twenty dollars, which sum you say is
necessary to save your land from sale. It is singular that you
should have forgotten a judgment against you; and it is more
singular that the plaintiff should have let you forget it so long,
particularly as I suppose you have always had property enough to
satisfy a judgment of that amount. Before you pay it, it would be
well to be sure you have not paid it; or, at least, that you can
not prove you have paid it. Give my love to Mother, and all the
connections.

Affectionat