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1860 ca.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Abraham Lincoln cartes-de-visite (2)
.1= Portrait: "Abe Lincoln/Honest Long Cut Chewing and Smoking/ W. Duke Son & co., NY. .2= President and Cabinet (ca. 1862, not after 1863).
GLC00732
02 November 1839
[Declaration in the case of John Kerr and Augustus Kerr v. Thomas Constant and Josiah Francis].
John and Augustus Kerr sued Constant and Francis for $522.55 they were owed. Lincoln, working as a lawyer with John T. Stuart, won judgment for $440.14 on November 26, 1839.
GLC00672
November 11, 1853
to Lewis M. Hays
Encloses a draft for $100 (not present). States he did not receive Hays' letter dated 12 October until yesterday as he was out of town.
GLC00756
August 3, 1860
Bolton, H., fl. 1860
to Capt. Paul J. Semmes
Writes that he saw Semmes's letter to the New York Herald editor dated 23 July and published on 30 July 1860 in which he offered a copy of the rules written for the Columbus Guard to Captain Ellsworth. Elmer Ellsworth, the founder of the Chicago...
GLC00572.11
November 15, 1860
Bethune, James N., 1803-1895
to Paul Semmes
Discusses the meeting of the legislature in Milledgeville, Georgia on the issue of secession. Writes that the general consensus in Milledgeville is one of resistance. States that Georgia Senator Benjamin Hill is demanding that Lincoln enforce the...
GLC00572.14
1860
The address of the Hon. Abraham Lincoln [Cooper Institute address]
Disbound. First edition but third printing of remarks. Annotated by Cephas Brainerd and Charles C. Nott. Not in Sabin but related to B41160. Known as the Cooper Union (Cooper Institute) address. This speech in New York was instrumental in...
GLC00533
1858 ca.
Cole, Henry, fl. 1858-1862
Salt print photograph of Abraham Lincoln, attributed to H. H. Cole or R. M. Cole
Clean-shaven. Oval salt print. O-14 Ostendorf 14 (who suggests attribution to Roderick M. Cole of Peoria), Mellon pl. 8. This picture was widely reproduced in campaign ribbons of 1860. Attributed to Henry H. or Roderick M. Cole. (See also GLC 3950...
GLC00590
July 27, 1855
to Anson L. Brewer
Writes to fellow attorney Brewer about the status of James Kelly v. Jesse D. Blackledge in the Logan County Circuit Court. Describes how the judge delayed the suit by taking the case under advisement. He questions the trial, "if it could be called a...
GLC00606
November 1860
Ferrill, Julius A., ?-1861
[Resolutions of the Southern Rights Vigilance Club]
Signed by Ferrill with over 25 others. Concerns their opposition to Abraham Lincoln and abolitionism. Resolves to "resist and prevent" Lincoln's inauguration (if elected), to offer their services to any seceding state, to resist anyone who would...
GLC00837
1857/09/30
to Richard Yates re: urging him to run for election for Illinois governor
Yates served as governor of Illinois during the Civil War. Basler 2: 424.
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. II 1848 - 1858, p. 424
GLC02315
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