227. Crittenden to John M. Clayton, Frankfort, 13 Mar. 1849, Clayton Papers, DLC.
228. Philo H. Thompson to Lincoln, Pekin, 23 Apr. 1849, AL MSS DLC; David Davis to [William P. Walker], Bloomington, Illinois, 14 Mar. 1853, David Davis Papers, IHi.
229. Lincoln to George W. Rives, Springfield, 7 May 1849, CWL, 2:46.
230. William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon’s Lincoln, ed. Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis (1889; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006), 85.
231. Orville [Paddock?] to his sister, Springfield, 12 June 1849, Paddock Family Papers, Missouri Historical Society.
232. Rives to O. M. Hatch, Paris, Illinois, 10 Nov. 1858, Hatch Papers, IHi.
233. William H. Chandler to Elisha Embree, Evansville, Indiana, 3 Feb. 1849, Embree Papers, Manuscripts Department, Indiana Division, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis.
234. Lincoln to Thomas Ewing, Springfield, 3 June 1849, CWL, 2:52.
235. Barrett to Thomas Ewing, Springfield, 6 May 1849, copy, Ewing Papers, DLC.
236. Herndon to Jesse W. Weik, Springfield, 15 Jan. 1886, H-W MSS DLC;
237. Barrett to Ewing, Springfield, 6 May 1849, copy, Ewing Papers, DLC.
238. Lincoln to Thompson, Springfield, 25 Apr. 1849, CWL, 2:44.
239. Copy of a petition signed by P. H. Thompson and 138 others, Pekin, 1 May 1849, AL MSS DLC.
240. Lincoln to Thomas Ewing, Springfield, 10 May 1849, CWL, 2:46–47.
241. Lincoln to Speed, Washington, 20 Feb. 1849, CWL, 2:28–29.
242. John F. Snyder, “Col. Don Morrison,” unpublished biographical sketch, p. 24, Snyder Papers, IHi.
243. Lincoln to Speed, Washington, 20 Feb. 1849, CWL, 2:29.
244. Lincoln’s letter is quoted in Cyrus Edwards to Justin Butterfield, Woodlawn, Illinois, 11 June 1849, Records of the Department of the Interior, Appointments Division, Central Office Appointment Papers, 1849–1907, box 32, Record Group 48, National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
245. Lincoln to Davis, Washington, 12 Feb. 1849, Roy P. Basler, ed., Collected Works of Lincoln, First Supplement (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1973), 14.
246. Butterfield to Caleb B. Smith, Chicago, 28 May 1849, Smith Papers, DLC.
247. Lincoln to William B. Warren and others, Springfield, 7 Apr. 1849, CWL, 2:41.
248. Cyrus Edwards to Justin Butterfield, Woodlawn, Illinois, 11 June 1849, Records of the Department of the Interior, Appointments Division, Central Office Appointment Papers, 1849–1907, box 32, Record Group 48, National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
249. Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger, eds., Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997), 73 (entry for 13 Aug. 1863).
250. Lucas to Lincoln, Washington, 12 Apr. 1849, AL MSS DLC.
251. Butterfield to Caleb B. Smith, Lasalle, Illinois, 5 June 1849, Smith Papers, DLC; Richard M. Young to Lincoln, Washington, 7 May 1849, AL MSS DLC.
252. Henderson to Lincoln, Washington, 13 and 18 May 1849, AL MSS DLC.
253. Butterfield to Caleb B. Smith, Lasalle, 5 June 1849, Smith Papers, DLC.
254. Butterfield to Caleb B. Smith, Chicago, [1?] June 1849, Smith Papers, DLC.
255. Butterfield to Caleb B. Smith, Chicago, 28 May 1849, Smith Papers, DLC.
256. Thomas Mather to William Mather, Springfield, 19 May 1849, Records of the Department of the Interior, Appointments Division, Central Office Appointment Papers, 1849–1907, box 32, Record Group 48, National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
257. Lincoln to Lucas, Springfield, 25 April 1849, CWL, 2: 43–44.
258. Lincoln to Preston, Springfield, 16 May 1849, CWL, 2:49.
259. Lincoln to Embree, Springfield, 25 May 1849, CWL, 2:51; Lincoln to Thomas Ewing, Springfield, 9 July 1849, Roy P. Basler and Christian O. Basler, eds., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln: Second Supplement, 1848–1865 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 3–4.
260. A. G. Henry to Joseph Gillespie, Springfield, 2 June 1849, Joseph Gillespie Papers, IHi; Henry to David Davis, Springfield, 2 June 1849, Davis Papers, ibid.
261. Josiah M. Lucas to Lincoln, Washington, 15 Apr. 1849, AL MSS DLC.
262. Josiah M. Lueas to Lincoln, Washington, 10 May 1849, AL MSS DLC.
263. Josiah M. Lucas to Anson G. Henry, Washington, 22 May 1849, AL MSS DLC.
264. Ben E. Green to Lincoln, Washington, 29 May 1849, AL MSS, DLC.
265. Illinois Gazette (Lacon), 9 June 1849.
266. Butterfield to Caleb B. Smith, Springfield, 6 June 1849, Smith Papers, DLC; petition dated 6 June 1849, Records of the Department of the Interior, Appointments Division, Central Office Appointment Papers, 1849–1907, box 32, Record Group 48, National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
267. Undated petition, Records of the Department of the Interior, Appointments Division, Central Office Appointment Papers, 1849–1907, box 32, Record Group 48, National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
268. Butterfield to Caleb B. Smith, Springfield, 6 June 1849, Smith Papers, DLC; Anson G. Henry to Lincoln, Springfield, 11 June 1849, AL MSS DLC.
269. Butterfield to J. J. Brown, Springfield, 7 June 1849, Records of the Department of the Interior, Appointments Division, Central Office Appointment Papers, 1849–1907, box 32, Record Group 48, National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
270. Herndon to Jesse W. Weik, Springfield, 11 Feb. 1887, H-W MSS DLC.
271. Herndon to Jesse W. Weik, Springfield, 8 and 15 Jan. 1886, H-W MSS DLC. Cf. Weik to Albert J. Beveridge, Larchmont, New York, 4 Feb. 1926, Beveridge Papers, DLC.
272. Butterfield to J. J. Brown, Springfield, 7 June 1849, Records of the Department of the Interior, Appointments Division, Central Office Appointment Papers, 1849–1907, box 32, Record Group 48, National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
273. Levi Davis to Butterfield, Springfield, 9 June 1849, Records of the Department of the Interior, Appointments Division, Central Office Appointment Papers, 1849–1907, box 32, Record Group 48, National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
274. William H. Herndon to Jesse W. Weik, Springfield, 8 Jan. 1886, H-W MSS DLC.
275. Memorandum to Taylor, [15?] June 1849, CWL, 2:54.
276. Butterfield to Hunter, Chicago, 4 June 1849, Records of the Department of the Interior, Appointments Division, Central Office Appointment Papers, 1849–1907, box 32, Record Group 48, National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
277. Lucas to Zachary Taylor, Washington, 6 June 1849, Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, copy of a typescript, Small Manuscript Collections, DLC.
278. Wilcox told this to Joseph H. Barrett, who recorded the reminiscence in 1865. “Lincoln and the Land Office,” memo by William E. Barton, Barton Papers, box 6, folder 94, University of Chicago.
279. Chicago Journal, 12 June 1849.
280. Francis F. Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln (2nd ed.; Chicago: Browne & Howell, 1913), 107.
281. Lincoln to Gillespie, Springfield, 13 July 1849, CWL, 2:58.
282. “Mr. Butterfield,” Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 20 Nov. 1850.
283. “For your sake I pledge a word which has never failed that I will bury the hatchet with Lincoln, and be ready to exert all my influence for the promotion of your views, whatever they may be.” Cyrus Edwards to Joseph Gillespie, Woodlawn, Illinois, 4 July 1860, copy, Ida M. Tarbell Papers, Allegheny College.
284. Lincoln to David Davis, Springfield, 6 July 1849, Basler, ed., Collected Works of Lincoln, First Supplement, 16.
285. Lincoln to Gillespie, Springfield, 13 July 1849, CWL, 2:59.
286. Washburne to Caleb B. Smith, Galena, Illinois, 17 Nov. 1849, Smith Papers, DLC.
287. Giddings to Wendell Phillips, Jefferson, Ohio, 30 July 1860, Ashtabula Sentinel, n.d., copied in The Liberator (Boston), 24 Aug. 1860.
288. The National Era (Washington), 21 Dec. 1848.
289. E. Harriman to Millard
Fillmore, Washington, 2 Dec. 1850, Records of the Department of the Interior, Appointments Division, Central Office Appointment Papers, 1849–1907, box 32, Record Group 48, National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
290. Washington correspondence, 2 Aug., New York Herald, 4 Aug. 1850.
291. A document headed “Applications” listing all letters in support of candidates for the Commissionership of the General Land Office in 1849, National Archives; Lincoln to Ewing, Springfield, 9 July 1849, Basler and Basler, eds., Collected Works of Lincoln, Second Supplement, 3–4.
292. Lincoln to John Addison, Springfield, 9 Aug. 1849, CWL, 2:91–92.
293. Lincoln to Clayton, Springfield, 28 July 1850, CWL, 2:60.
294. CWL, 2:83–90.
295. Unidentified Massachusetts politician (probably John Alley) to Josiah G. Holland, Washington, 8 Aug. 1865, Holland Papers, New York Public Library.
296. Allen C. Clark, Abraham Lincoln in the National Capital (Washington, DC: W. F. Roberts, 1925), 6.
297. William Henry Milburn, Ten Years of Preacher-Life: Chapters from an Autobiography (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1859), 166.
298. John Cook’s undated reminiscences, Lincoln Centennial Association Papers, IHi; Cook’s reminiscences, Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 8 Feb. 1909.
299. Arthur P. Rugg, “Abraham Lincoln in Worcester,” Worcester Society of Antiquity, Proceedings, 25 (1910): 5–7.
300. David Davis to Lincoln, Taylorville, 6 June 1849, AL MSS DLC.
301. Lyman D. Stickney to Elisha Embree, New Harmony, Indiana, 7 Sept. 1849, Embree Papers, Indiana Division, Manuscripts Department, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis.
302. Linder to Joseph Gillespie, Charleston, Illinois, 14 Jan. 1850, Gillespie Papers, IHi; Illinois State Register (Springfield), 15 Nov. 1849.
303. Elihu B. Washburne to Caleb B. Smith, aboard a Mississippi River steamboat, 15 Nov. 1849, Smith Papers, DLC.
304. Lincoln to the editor of the Chicago Journal, Springfield, 21 Nov. 1849, CWL, 2:68.
305. Stuart, interviewed by John G. Nicolay, Springfield, 24 June 1875, Burlingame, ed., Oral History of Lincoln, 15.
306. Noah Brooks, Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894), 116.
307. Statement dated 1866 by Nathaniel G. Wilcox, in Joseph H. Barrett, Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency (2 vols.; Cincinnati: Robert Clarke, 1904), 1:108.
308. R. W. Thompson, “Abraham Lincoln,” undated manuscript, p. 15, R. W. Thompson Papers, IHi.
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1. [John M. Scott], “Lincoln on the Stump and at the Bar,” undated typescript enclosed in Scott to Ida Tarbell, Bloomington, Illinois, 14 Aug. 1895, Tarbell Papers, Allegheny College.
2. Robert H. Browne, Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time (2 vols.; Cincinnati: Jennings and Pye, 1901), 1:285.
3. Roy P. Basler et al., eds., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln [herafter cited as CWL] (8 vols. plus index; New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953–1955), 3:512, 4:67.
4. Henry C. Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, ed. Paul M. Angle (1892; Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1940), 404.
5. Notes for a law lecture, Roy P. Basler, ed., Collected Works of Lincoln, First Supplement (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1973), 19.
6. F. of Circleville, Ohio, “The Profession of the Law,” Western Law Journal 7 (1849):109.
7. Gibson William Harris, “My Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Woman’s Home Companion, Dec. 1903, p. 15.
8. Herndon to Wendell Phillips, Springfield, 12 May 1857, Phillips Papers, Harvard University.
9. Herndon to Ward Hill Lamon, Springfield, 6 Mar. 1870, Lamon Papers, CSmH.
10. Herndon “Lincoln’s Ingratitude,” H-W MSS DLC.
11. Herndon, to Caroline Dall, Springfield, 28 Oct. 1866, Dall Papers, MHi.
12. Jesse W. Weik, The Real Lincoln: A Portrait, ed. Michael Burlingame (1922; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), 301.
13. Lincoln to William Martin, Springfield 6 Mar. 1851, CWL, 2:102.
14. Clipping dated Wichita, Kansas, 12 Feb. 1958, from an unidentified newspaper, LMF.
15. William H. Herndon, “Analysis of the Character of Abraham Lincoln,” lecture delivered at Springfield, 26 Dec. 1865, Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 1 (1941): 428.
16. Harris, “My Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Woman’s Home Companion, Jan. 1904, p. 14.
17. Herndon, “Analysis of the Character of Lincoln,” 427.
18. Mrs. James Judson Lord in Walter B. Stevens, A Reporter’s Lincoln, ed. Michael Burlingame (1916; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), 188; Dr. James Judson Lord, interview with Herndon, [1865–1866], Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds., Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews and Statements about Abraham Lincoln [hereafter cited as HI] (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 469.
19. Herndon, “Analysis of the Character of Lincoln,” 427–428.
20. John H. Littlefield in Everywhere, Feb. 1902, copied in the Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 1902.
21. Lincoln to Abram Bale, Springfield, 22 Feb. 1850, CWL, 2:76.
22. Lincoln to Haden Keeling, Springfield, 3 Mar. 1859, CWL, 3:371.
23. Harris, “My Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Woman’s Home Companion, Jan. 1904, p. 14.
24. Ibid., p. 15.
25. Lawrence Beaumont Stringer, “From the Sangamon to the Potomac: More Light on Abraham Lincoln,” typescript of an unpublished manuscript, p. 95, Edgar Dewitt Jones Papers, Detroit Public Library.
26. Pleading by Lincoln in case of Beatty et ux. vs. Miller et ux. (1845), Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis, eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition [hereafter cited as LPAL] (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000), case file #02643.
27. Narratio, p. 5, in Martin vs. Underwood (1857–1858), LPAL, case file #01953.
28. Declaration in Cantrall vs. Prim (1849), LPAL, case file #03010.
29. Mitchell et ux. vs. Mitchell (1852), LPAL, case file #00673.
30. Declaration in Torrance vs. Galloway (1847–1848), LPAL, case file #01595.
31. Plea in Thompson vs. Henline (1851–1852), LPAL, case file #01689; plea in Davidson vs. McGhilton (1852), LPAL, case file #01753.
32. Declaration in Patterson et ux. vs. Edwards et ux. (1843–1844), LPAL, case file #00804.
33. Lawrence Weldon, “Reminiscences of Lincoln as a Lawyer,” in William Hayes Ward, ed., Abraham Lincoln, Tributes from His Associates: Reminiscences of Soldiers, Statesmen, and Citizens (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895), 246.
34. Fithian vs. Casseday (1851), case file #01891, LPAL; Willard L. King, Lincoln’s Manager: David Davis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960), 81–82; Donald G. Richter, Lincoln: Twenty Years on the Eastern Prairie (Mattoon, IL: United Graphics, 1999), 98–110.
35. David Ross Locke, in Allen Thorndike Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time (New York: North American Review, 1888), 451.
36. Affidavit of 20 Oct. 1838 by Rogers, in the handwriting of Lincoln, Rogers vs. Rogers (1838–1839), LPAL, case file #04460.
37. Grant Goodrich to Herndon, Chicago, 9 Dec. 1866, HI, 510.
38. Cowls vs. Cowls (1845–1846), LPAL, case file #01617; Dennis E. Suttles, “ ‘For the Well-Being of the Child’: The Law and Childhood,” in Daniel W. Stowell, ed., In Tender Consideration: Women, Families, and the Law in Abraham Lincoln’s Illinois (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 54–56; Dan W. Bannister, Lincoln and the Illinois Supreme Court (Springfield, IL: n.p., 1995), 134.
39. Harris, “My Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Woman’s Home Companion, Dec. 1903, p. 15.
40. Herndon, “Analysis of the Character of Abraham Lincoln,” 430.
41. Linder to Joseph Gillespie, Chicago, 8 Aug. 1867, Gillespie Papers, ICHi.
42. Isaac N. Arnold, “Reminiscences of the Illinois-Bar Forty Year
s Ago: Lincoln and Douglas as Orators and Lawyers,” paper read before the Bar Association of the State of Illinois, Springfield, 7 Jan. 1881 (pamphlet; Chicago: Fergus, 1881), 20, 22.
43. Hiram W. Beckwith, “Lincoln: Personal Recollections of Him, His Contemporaries and Law Practice in Eastern Illinois,” Chicago Tribune, 29 Dec. 1895.
44. Henry C. Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, vol. 1 of A Life of Lincoln, ed. Marion Mills Miller (2 vols.; New York: Baker & Taylor, 1908), 173; Whitney, Life on the Circuit, ed. Angle, 235.
45. Stevens, A Reporter’s Lincoln, ed. Burlingame, 163; S. Wesley Martin, quoted in Charles Washington Moores, “Abraham Lincoln, Lawyer,” Indiana Historical Society Publications 7 (1922):502.
46. Lecture by Swett, delivered in Chicago, 20 Feb. 1876, Chicago Times, 21 Feb. 1876.
47. James S. Ewing, speech at Bloomington, 12 Feb. 1909, in Isaac N. Phillips, Abraham Lincoln by Some Men Who Knew Him, ed. Paul M. Angle (1910; Chicago: Americana House, 1950), 39.
48. Scott, “Lincoln on the Stump and at the Bar.”
49. Milton Hay interviewed by John G. Nicolay, Springfield, 4 July 1875, in Michael Burlingame, ed., An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay’s Interviews and Essays (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996), 27.
50. Scott, “Lincoln on the Stump and at the Bar.”
51. Beckwith, “Lincoln: Personal Recollections of Him, His Contemporaries and Law Practice in Eastern Illinois.”
52. Paul M. Zall, ed., Abe Lincoln Laughing: Humorous Anecdotes from Original Sources by and about Abraham Lincoln (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 118–119; Whitney, Life on the Circuit, ed. Angle, 179.
53. Beckwith, “Lincoln: Personal Recollections of Him, His Contemporaries and Law Practice in Eastern Illinois.”
54. Felix Ryan of Lincoln, Illinois, and John Strong of Atlanta, Illinois, quoted in Moores, “Abraham Lincoln, Lawyer,” 509.
55. Herndon to Truman Bartlett, Springfield, 19 July 1887, Bartlett Papers, MHi.
56. Anonymous manuscript, n. d., doubtless by James C. Robinson, Ida Tarbell Papers, Allegheny College.
57. Letter by Charles Monroe Chase, Chicago, 6 June 1859, in the DeKalb County Sentinel, n.d., typed copy, J. G. Randall Papers, DLC.
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