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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Lincoln Letters + +Author: Abraham Lincoln + +Release Date: July 27, 2009 [EBook #8110] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LINCOLN LETTERS *** + + + + +Produced by Nicole Apostola, and David Widger + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<br><br> + +<h1> + LINCOLN LETTERS +</h1><br><br> + +<h2> +By Abraham Lincoln +</h2><br><br> + +<h3> +Published by The Bibilophile Society +</h3> + + + + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br> +<br> + +<center> +<table summary=""> +<tr><td> + + +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0001"> +NOTE +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0002"> +Washington, Dec. 24th, 1848. +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0003"> +Washington, April 30, 1864. +</a></p> + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br> +<br> + + +<h2>List of Illustrations</h2> + + +<center> +<table summary=""> +<tr><td> + + + +<p class="toc"><a href="#image-0001"> +01 To his Father +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#image-0002"> +02 To his Brother +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#image-0003"> +03 To his Brother +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#image-0004"> +04 To General Grant +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#image-0005"> +05 Request for a Pardon +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#image-0006"> +06 Request for a Pardon +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#image-0007"> +07 Approval of a Pardon +</a></p> + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + +<a name="2H_4_0001"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + + +<h2> + NOTE +</h2> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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 +</p> +<a name="image-0001"><!--IMG--></a> +<center> +<img src="images/linc01.jpg" height="1430" width="1200" +alt="01 to his Father +"> +</center> + +<a name="image-0002"><!--IMG--></a> +<center> +<img src="images/linc02.jpg" height="1401" width="1155" +alt="02 to his Brother +"> +</center> + +<a name="image-0003"><!--IMG--></a> +<center> +<img src="images/linc03.jpg" height="1405" width="1150" +alt="03 to his Brother +"> +</center> + +<a name="2H_4_0002"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + Washington, Dec. 24th, 1848. +</h2> +<h3> + My dear father:— +</h3> +<p> +Your letter of the 7th was received night before last. I very +cheerfully send you the twenty dollars, which sum you say is +necessary to save your land from sale. It is singular that you +should have forgotten a judgment against you; and it is more +singular that the plaintiff should have let you forget it so long, +particularly as I suppose you have always had property enough to +satisfy a judgment of that amount. Before you pay it, it would be +well to be sure you have not paid it; or, at least, that you can +not prove you have paid it. Give my love to Mother, and all the +connections. +</p> +<p> +Affectionately your son, +</p> +<center> +A. LINCOLN. +</center> +<p> +[Written on same page with above.] +</p> +<p> +Dear Johnston:— +</p> +<p> +Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best to comply +with now. At the various times when I have helped you a little, you +have said to me, "We can get along very well now," but in a very +short time I find you in the same difficulty again. Now this can +only happen by some defect in your conduct. What that defect is, I +think I know. You are not <i>lazy</i>, and still you <i>are</i> an <i>idler</i>. I +doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day's +work, in any one day. You do not very much dislike to work, and +still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you +that you could get much for it. This habit of uselessly wasting +time, is the whole difficulty; and it is vastly important to you, +and still more so to your children, that you should break this +habit. It is more important to them, because they have longer to +live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it +easier than they can get out after they are in. +</p> +<p> +You are now in need of some ready money; and what I propose is, +that you shall go to work, "tooth and nail," for somebody who will +give you money for it. Let father and your boys take charge of +things at home—prepare for a crop, and make the crop; and you go +to work for the best money wages, or in discharge of any debt you +owe, that you can get. And to secure you a fair reward for your +labor, I now promise you that for every dollar you will, between +this and the first of next May, get for your own labor either in +money or in your own indebtedness, I will then give you one other +dollar. By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from +me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your +work. In this, I do not mean you shall go off to St. Louis, or the +lead mines, or the gold mines, in California, but I mean for you to +go at it for the best wages you can get close to home, in Coles +County. Now if you will do this, you will soon be out of debt, and +what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from +getting in debt again. But if I should now clear you out, next year +you will be just as deep in as ever. You say you would almost give +your place in Heaven for $70 or $80. Then you value your place in +Heaven very cheaply, for I am sure you can with the offer I make +you get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' +work. You say if I furnish you the money you will deed me the +land, and if you don't pay the money back, you will deliver +possession—Nonsense! If you can't now live <i>with</i> the land, how will +you then live without it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not +now mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will but follow my +advice, you will find it worth more than eight times eighty dollars to +you. +</p> +<p> +Affectionately your brother, +</p> +<center> +A. LINCOLN. +</center> +<a name="image-0004"><!--IMG--></a> +<center> +<img src="images/linc04.jpg" height="1430" width="1180" +alt="04 to General Grant +"> +</center> + +<a name="2H_4_0003"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + Washington, April 30, 1864. +</h2> +<h3> + Executive Mansion, +</h3> +<p> +Lieutenant-General Grant,— +</p> +<p> +Not expecting to see you again before the spring campaign opens, I +wish to express, in this way, my entire satisfaction with what you +have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The +particulars of your plans I neither know, or seek to know. You are +vigilant and self reliant; and, pleased with this, I wish not to +obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. While I am very +anxious that any great disaster, or the capture of our men in great +numbers, shall be avoided, I know these points are less likely to +escape your attention than they would be mine. If there is anything +wanting which is within my power to give, do not fail to let me +know it. +</p> +<p> +And now with a brave Army, and a just cause, may God sustain you. +</p> +<p> +Yours very truly, +</p> +<center> +A. LINCOLN. +</center> +<a name="image-0005"><!--IMG--></a> +<center> +<img src="images/linc05.jpg" height="1206" width="826" +alt="05 Request for a Pardon +"> +</center> + +<a name="image-0006"><!--IMG--></a> +<center> +<img src="images/linc06.jpg" height="1091" width="836" +alt="06 Request for a Pardon +"> +</center> + +<a name="image-0007"><!--IMG--></a> +<center> +<img src="images/linc07.jpg" height="588" width="826" +alt="07 Approval of a Pardon +"> +</center> + +<div class="mynote"> + +<p> +[Transcriber's Note: The letter from Austin A. King, requesting a +pardon for John B. Corner is contained in files linc005.jpg and +linc006.jpg. Lincoln's note approving the pardon is contained in +file linc007.jpg. As these letters were not transcribed in the +print book, they have not been transcribed here.] +</p> +<br> +</div> + + + +<br><br><br><br> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lincoln Letters, by Abraham Lincoln + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LINCOLN LETTERS *** + +***** This file should be named 8110-h.htm or 8110-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/8/1/1/8110/ + +Produced by Nicole Apostola, and David Widger + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Lincoln Letters + +Author: Abraham Lincoln + +Release Date: May, 2005 [EBook #8110] +Posting Date: July 27, 2009 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LINCOLN LETTERS *** + + + + +Produced by Nicole Apostola + + + + + +LINCOLN LETTERS + +By Abraham Lincoln + + +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 + + +[Illustration: 01 TO HIS FATHER] + + +[Illustration: 02 TO HIS BROTHER] + + +[Illustration: 03 TO HIS BROTHER] + + + + +Washington, Dec. 24th, 1848. + +My dear father:-- + +Your letter of the 7th was received night before last. I very +cheerfully send you the twenty dollars, which sum you say is +necessary to save your land from sale. It is singular that you +should have forgotten a judgment against you; and it is more +singular that the plaintiff should have let you forget it so long, +particularly as I suppose you have always had property enough to +satisfy a judgment of that amount. Before you pay it, it would be +well to be sure you have not paid it; or, at least, that you can +not prove you have paid it. Give my love to Mother, and all the +connections. + +Affectionately your son, + +A. LINCOLN. + + +[Written on same page with above.] + +Dear Johnston:-- + +Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best to comply +with now. At the various times when I have helped you a little, you +have said to me, "We can get along very well now," but in a very +short time I find you in the same difficulty again. Now this can +only happen by some defect in your conduct. What that defect is, I +think I know. You are not _lazy_, and still you _are_ an _idler_. I +doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day's +work, in any one day. You do not very much dislike to work, and +still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you +that you could get much for it. This habit of uselessly wasting +time, is the whole difficulty; and it is vastly important to you, +and still more so to your children, that you should break this +habit. It is more important to them, because they have longer to +live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it +easier than they can get out after they are in. + +You are now in need of some ready money; and what I propose is, +that you shall go to work, "tooth and nail," for somebody who will +give you money for it. Let father and your boys take charge of +things at home--prepare for a crop, and make the crop; and you go +to work for the best money wages, or in discharge of any debt you +owe, that you can get. And to secure you a fair reward for your +labor, I now promise you that for every dollar you will, between +this and the first of next May, get for your own labor either in +money or in your own indebtedness, I will then give you one other +dollar. By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from +me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your +work. In this, I do not mean you shall go off to St. Louis, or the +lead mines, or the gold mines, in California, but I mean for you to +go at it for the best wages you can get close to home, in Coles +County. Now if you will do this, you will soon be out of debt, and +what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from +getting in debt again. But if I should now clear you out, next year +you will be just as deep in as ever. You say you would almost give +your place in Heaven for $70 or $80. Then you value your place in +Heaven very cheaply, for I am sure you can with the offer I make +you get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' +work. You say if I furnish you the money you will deed me the +land, and if you don't pay the money back, you will deliver +possession--Nonsense! If you can't now live _with_ the land, how will +you then live without it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not +now mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will but follow my +advice, you will find it worth more than eight times eighty dollars to +you. + +Affectionately your brother, + +A. LINCOLN. + + +[Illustration: 04 TO GENERAL GRANT] + + + + +Washington, April 30, 1864. + +Executive Mansion, + +Lieutenant-General Grant,-- + +Not expecting to see you again before the spring campaign opens, I +wish to express, in this way, my entire satisfaction with what you +have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The +particulars of your plans I neither know, or seek to know. You are +vigilant and self reliant; and, pleased with this, I wish not to +obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. While I am very +anxious that any great disaster, or the capture of our men in great +numbers, shall be avoided, I know these points are less likely to +escape your attention than they would be mine. If there is anything +wanting which is within my power to give, do not fail to let me +know it. + +And now with a brave Army, and a just cause, may God sustain you. + +Yours very truly, + +A. LINCOLN. + + + +[Illustration: 05 REQUEST FOR A PARDON] + + +[Illustration: 06 REQUEST FOR A PARDON] + + +[Illustration: 07 APPROVAL OF A PARDON] + + +[Transcriber's Note: The letter from Austin A. King, requesting a +pardon for John B. Corner is contained in files linc005.jpg and +linc006.jpg. Lincoln's note approving the pardon is contained in +file linc007.jpg. 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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 + + +[Transcriber's Note: The following letters, to Lincoln's father and +brother, make up files linc01.jpg, linc02.jpg, and linc03.jpg] + +Washington, Dec. 24th, 1848. + +My dear father:-- + +Your letter of the 7th was received night before last. I very +cheerfully send you the twenty dollars, which sum you say is +necessary to save your land from sale. It is singular that you +should have forgotten a judgment against you; and it is more +singular that the plaintiff should have let you forget it so long, +particularly as I suppose you have always had property enough to +satisfy a judgment of that amount. Before you pay it, it would be +well to be sure you have not paid it; or, at least, that you can +not prove you have paid it. Give my love to Mother, and all the +connections. + +Affectionately your son, + +A. LINCOLN. + + +[Written on same page with above.] + +Dear Johnston:-- + +Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best to comply +with now. At the various times when I have helped you a little, you +have said to me, "We can get along very well now," but in a very +short time I find you in the same difficulty again. Now this can +only happen by some defect in your conduct. What that defect is, I +think I know. You are not _lazy_, and still you _are_ an _idler_. I +doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day's +work, in any one day. You do not very much dislike to work, and +still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you +that you could get much for it. This habit of uselessly wasting +time, is the whole difficulty; and it is vastly important to you, +and still more so to your children, that you should break this +habit. It is more important to them, because they have longer to +live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it +easier than they can get out after they are in. + +You are now in need of some ready money; and what I propose is, +that you shall go to work, "tooth and nail," for somebody who will +give you money for it. Let father and your boys take charge of +things at home--prepare for a crop, and make the crop; and you go +to work for the best money wages, or in discharge of any debt you +owe, that you can get. And to secure you a fair reward for your +labor, I now promise you that for every dollar you will, between +this and the first of next May, get for your own labor either in +money or in your own indebtedness, I will then give you one other +dollar. By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from +me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your +work. In this, I do not mean you shall go off to St. Louis, or the +lead mines, or the gold mines, in California, but I mean for you to +go at it for the best wages you can get close to home, in Coles +County. Now if you will do this, you will soon be out of debt, and +what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from +getting in debt again. But if I should now clear you out, next year +you will be just as deep in as ever. You say you would almost give +your place in Heaven for $70 or $80. Then you value your place in +Heaven very cheaply, for I am sure you can with the offer I make +you get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' +work. You say if I furnish you the money you will deed me the land, +and if you don't pay the money back, you will deliver possession-- +Nonsense! If you can't now live _with_ the land, how will you then +live without it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not now +mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will but follow +my advice, you will find it worth more than eight times eighty +dollars to you. + +Affectionately your brother, + +A. LINCOLN. + + +[Transcriber's Note: The following letter to General Grant is +contained in file linc04.jpg] + +Executive Mansion, +Washington, April 30, 1864. + +Lieutenant-General Grant,-- + +Not expecting to see you again before the spring campaign opens, I +wish to express, in this way, my entire satisfaction with what you +have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The +particulars of your plans I neither know, or seek to know. You are +vigilant and self reliant; and, pleased with this, I wish not to +obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. While I am very +anxious that any great disaster, or the capture of our men in great +numbers, shall be avoided, I know these points are less likely to +escape your attention than they would be mine. If there is anything +wanting which is within my power to give, do not fail to let me +know it. + +And now with a brave Army, and a just cause, may God sustain you. + +Yours very truly, + +A. LINCOLN. + + + +[Transcriber's Note: The letter from Austin A. King, requesting a +pardon for John B. Corner is contained in files linc005.jpg and +linc006.jpg. Lincoln's note approving the pardon is contained in +file linc007.jpg. As these letters were not transcribed in the +print book, I have not transcribed them here.] + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, LINCOLN LETTERS *** + +This file should be named lncln10.txt or lncln10.zip +Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, lncln11.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, lncln10a.txt + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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