te House, 464-465;
desire to live in California, 549;
plans for retirement, 584-585.
_Education_,
early education, 7-9, 11-19;
early schools attended, 11-13;
his copy book inscription, 13;
first efforts in composition, 13;
mental training from reading, 14;
scrap-book kept in youth, 14;
handwriting at seventeen, 19;
book of arithmetic examples, 19
knowledge of astronomy and geology, 20-21;
study of grammar, 26-27;
L.'s own account, 33;
knowledge of drama, 79;
L. as a student, 130-131;
musical taste, 466-467;
unashamed of early deficiencies, 468-469
_Books_ and _reading_,
influence of first books, 8, 14-16;
his own testimony, 15;
the ruined volume, 14, 16;
method of reading, 131;
wrote verses, 132;
books in White House office, 300;
love for Shakespeare, Browning, and Byron, 387;
memory for poetry, 356;
poets best loved, 466-467;
humorists liked, 467;
best-loved books, 468;
novel reading, 469
_Employments_,
first work, 16;
first dollar earned, 17-18;
flatboat constructed for commercial enterprise, 17-18;
his first employer, 19-20;
first flatboat journey to New Orleans, 195;
second flatboat journey to New Orleans, 23-34;
clerk at New Salem, 26-34;
Offutt's store closed, 35;
brief career as country merchant, 42-44;
blacksmith trade considered, 42;
surveys and plans Petersburg, 47, 67;
notion to become a carpenter, 71
_Law career_,
early interest in law, 9, 19;
study and practice, 33-43;
begins study of, 46-47;
begins practice, 47;
period covered, 55;
reverence for law, 64;
in Springfield, 69;
without plans or money, 60-70;
asking credit, 70;
partnership with Stuart and Logan, 71;
with Herndon, 71;
riding the circuit, 71-84;
borrows, then owns a horse, 71;
welcome by other lawyers, 72;
humility, 72;
court scene, 72-73;
freedom in social intercourse, 73;
leading lawyers of the day, 73-74;
adventures and hardships, 74;
popularity and appearance, 75-76;
not afraid of unpopular cases, 77;
wins case of widow of revolutionary pensioner, 77-79;
wins case for Jefferson, 79;
ridiculing the eloquence of oppone