Abraham Lincoln
Published: 2017-12-12
Total Pages: 142
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Excerpt from Lincoln Letters, Hitherto Unpublished, in the Library of Brown University and Other Providence Libraries He did not begin to collect in earnest until 1900. His first Lincoln manuscript, a short note to the Secretary of State, dated July 19, 1861, was acquired in June, 1901. The col lection was given to Brown University in 192 3 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The manuscripts then comprised 50 letters, 25 legal cases, 19 commissions signed in full, and 38 endorse ments, notes, signatures, etc. These had been examined by Mr. Gilbert A. Tracy, and many were included in his volume Uncollected letters of Abraham Lincoln. Some of them, probably obtained later, were not included in that book and are now published for the first time. In the appendix is given a list of the other Lincoln items in the collection: com misions, signed in full, Abraham Lincoln, and legal cases in Lincoln's handwriting, also. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.