By Gerald J. Prokopowicz
ISBN-10: 0307377148
ISBN-13: 9780307377142
Within the bicentennial yr of Lincoln's start, here's the single fundamental ebook that offers all you want to find out about our so much respected president in a full of life and remarkable question-and-answer format.You will research even if Lincoln may possibly dunk a basketball or inform a shaggy dog story. used to be he the good emancipator or a racist? If he have been alive this day, may possibly he get elected? Did he die wealthy? Did scientists increase Lincoln from the lifeless? From the likely lighthearted to the main severe Gerald Prokopowicz tackles each one query with stability and authority, and weaves a whole, gratifying biography that may interact old and young, students and armchair historians alike.
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Yours truly, S. L. Clemens. 1876—page 31 To James Redpath 17 March 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: CU-MARK, #01314) Hartford Mch 17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 My Dear Redpath— I want to deliver “Roughing It” in New York within the next 3 weeks. I have to deliver it in New Haven next Wednesday, & so may as well talk it in N. Y. while it is fresh in my mind. I want Chickering Hall—& will wait till I can get it if you think it the best place—as doubtless it is. I want to talk in the afternoon & also that same night—& then fold my tent & skip home.
I think our lawyers will know how to handle Mr. Gill this time, after the experience they have had with him. Keep the book you mention & don’t mislay it. ) Yrs Ever S. L. Clemens Ï P. 000—& a written confession that he is a liar & thief—& a promise to take my article & name out of his book at once—with a penalty of $5 dollars per copy on every book issued afterward with name & article (or either) in it. Yrs S. L. Clemens Ï Sue for $1,000 to $10,000 damages, & permanent injunction. 1876—page 11 To William Dean Howells 18 January 1876 • Hartford, Conn.
What is your criticism? We both, & all, send love to you, little woman, & lovingly I put you into the empty chamber in my heart where my Mollie was that is gone. I am going to write to our good old Mother very soon, & beg & lie, & explain, & make it all up with her, and get her gentle forgiveness, & then go & do some more. Benedictions & blessings upon all the household at Fair Banks! Amen. Saml. L. Clemens 1876—page 23 To Mary Mason Fairbanks 13 February 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, damage emended: CSmH, #01307) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 FARMINGTON AVENUE, HARTFORD.
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