{"product_id":"2940014575263","title":"UNCOLLECTED LETTERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (Illustrated)","description":"Gilbert A. Tracy's \"Uncollected Letters of Abraham Lincoln\" brings upwards of three hundred and fifty letters written by Lincoln, together for the first time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis selection, though not inclusive of all that Lincoln wrote of literary value, are representative of him as a man of letters, and undoubtedly include much of his finest work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe letters, many of them of decided historical value, are rich in material which will delight any student of Lincoln.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey vividly illustrate the many-sided Abraham Lincoln:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Great \"Commoner\" \u003cbr\u003eThe Loyal Friend\u003cbr\u003eThe Defender of the Weak\u003cbr\u003eThe Eloquent Lawyer\u003cbr\u003eThe Adroit Politician\u003cbr\u003eThe Temperate Statesman. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of his longest letters are here, but also some his shortest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome examples:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen in reply to an autograph collector he writes: \"You request an autograph and here it is.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young man who wishes to study law under him and Lincoln refers to a local \"excellent lawyer (much better than I, in law-learning)\" but advises the youth: \"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any one thing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the eve of his presidential nomination in 1860, he declines an invitation to deliver a lecture before the Harrison Literary Institute of Chicago: \"I am not a professional lecturer. Have never got up but one lecture, and that I think rather a poor one.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnother human note is sounded when in July, 1864, the great president penned his thanks to a woman, who had passed the eighty-fourth year of life had given to the soldiers some three hundred pairs of stockings knitted by \u003cbr\u003eherself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe offered his services gratuitously to defend on a charge of murder the son of a widow from whose hands he had  himself received various favors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstead of presenting a formal bill for his services, he once wrote: \"I have news that we won our Gallatin and Saline county case. As the Dutch justice said when he married folks, 'Now vere ish my hundred tollers?'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll in all, the letters include not only the human side of a great man, but many other writings which illustrate the man and his mind which will always have a special significance for our own time and value for the time to  come.","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083832574192,"sku":"2940014575263","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014575263_p0.jpg?v=1763611266","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014575263","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}