Lawyer
“He was the Most Indulgent Parent I have Ever Known”
By William H. Herndon
“This Blade at the Point Travels Rapidly”
By William H. Herndon
“I’ve Read Enough of it”
By William H. Herndon
“He Read Less and Thought More than any Man”
By William H. Herndon
“Hadn’t we Better Withdraw that Plea”
By William H. Herndon
Lincoln’s Talent Comes From His Twenty Years Of Practicing Law.
“He Looked Carefully over all the Papers”
“Reluctant to Publish their Failures”
“All that I am or ever Hope to be I Owe to Her”
Letter to William Herndon (July 10, 1848)
“He was Playful and Sportive as a Child”
By Henry C. Whitney, July 26, 1861
“He had Hidden the Loud”
By Henry C. Whitney, June 17, 1856
“He Played on a Boy’s Harp all the Way”
By Henry C. Whitney, 1854-10-25
“I Reckon it’s him”
By Henry C. Whitney, July 19, 1856
“If I cannot Find some Excuse”
By Leonard Swett, January 17, 1866
“His Love of Fun”
By Leonard Swett, January 17, 1866