Ranking #131 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Some of Shakspeare’s plays I have never read; while others I have gone over perhaps as frequently as any unprofessional reader. Among the latter are Lear, Richard …
Contributing Editors for this page include Andrew Villwock Ranking #132 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “My note to you I certainly did not expect to see in print; yet I have not been much …
Contributing Editors for this page include Todd Jansson Ranking #134 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “My childhood’s home I see again, And sadden with the view; And still, as memory crowds my brain, …
Letter to Andrew Johnston With Poem (April 18, 1846) Read more »
Ranking #136 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Mr. B. though entirely competent, so far as I know, is not recommended by any citizen of this state directly for the office, and we feel that should …
Contributing Editors for this page include Chris Jaax Ranking #137 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Other things being equal, I would much prefer a temperate man, to an intemperate one; still I do not …
Contributing Editors for this page include Jonas Sherr Ranking #138 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the …
Contributing Editors for this page include Annemarie Gray Ranking #139 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “You may possibly remember seeing me at the Philadelphia Convention—introduced to you as the lone whig star of Illinois. …
Contributing Editors for this page include Christopher Watson Ranking #140 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Dear Wife: When I wrote you before I was just starting on a little speech-making tour, taking the boys with …
Ranking #141 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “My name is new in the field; and I suppose I am not the first choice of a very great many. Our policy, then, is to give …
Ranking #142 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “I agree with Seward in his ‘Irrepressible Conflict,’ but I do not endorse his ‘Higher Law’ doctrine. Make no contracts that will bind me.” On This Date HD …
Ranking #143 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Capt. Derrickson, with his company, has been, for some time keeping guard at my residence, now at the Soldiers Retreat. He, and his Company are very agreeable …
Contributing Editors for this page include Jonas Sherr Ranking #144 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “I suppose as good, or even better, men than I may have been in American, or Know-Nothing lodges; but …
Ranking #145 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “While I very well know what I would be glad for Louisiana to do, it is quite a different thing for me to assume direction of the …
Ranking #146 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Without claiming to be your superior, which I do not, my position enables me to understand my duty in all these matters better than you possibly can, …
Contributing Editors for this page include Susan Segal Ranking #147 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “…I do not object to abide a decision of the United States Supreme Court, or of the judges thereof, …
Ranking #149 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript Context. President Lincoln wrote this careful note to French writer Agenor-Etienne de Gasparin after receiving multiple letters from him as well as a copy of his translated …
Letter to Agenor-Etienne de Gasparin (August 4, 1862) Read more »