e money you will deed me the
land, and if you don't pay the money back, you will deliver
possession--Nonsense! If you can't now live _with_ the land, how will
you then live without it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not
now mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will but follow my
advice, you will find it worth more than eight times eighty dollars to
you.

Affectionately your brother,

A. LINCOLN.

[Illustration: 04 TO GENERAL GRANT]

Washington, April 30, 1864.

Executive Mansion,

Lieutenant-General Grant,--

Not expecting to see you again before the spring campaign opens, I
wish to express, in this way, my entire satisfaction with what you
have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The
particulars of your plans I neither know, or seek to know. You are
vigilant and self reliant; and, pleased with this, I wish not to
obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. While I am very
anxious that any great disaster, or the capture of our men in great
numbers, shall be avoided, I know these points are less likely to
escape your attention than they would be mine. If there is anything
wanting which is within my power to give, do not fail to let me
know it.

And now with a brave Army, and a just cause, may God sustain you.

Yours very truly,

A. LINCOLN.

[Illustration: 05 REQUEST FOR A PARDON]

[Illustration: 06 REQUEST FOR A PARDON]

[Illustration: 07 APPROVAL OF A PARDON]

[Transcriber's Note: The letter from Austin A. King, requesting a
pardon for John B. Corner is contained in files linc005.jpg and
linc006.jpg. Lincoln's note approving the pardon is contained in
file linc007.jpg. As these letters were not transcribed in the
print book, they have not been transcribed here.]

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lincoln Letters, by Abraham Lincoln

*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LINCOLN LETTERS ***

***** This file should be named 8110.txt or 8110.zip *****
This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.gutenberg.org/8/1/1/8110/

Produced by Nicole Apostola

Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.

Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties