LINCOLN LETTERS

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


Washington, Dec. 24th, 1848.

My dear father:--