. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . were charmingly nat-ural and sincere. His personal friendships were the sweet-est sources of his happiness. To a particular friend, he wrote February 25, 1842: Yours of the i6th, announcing that Mi
. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . were charmingly nat-ural and sincere. His personal friendships were the sweet-est sources of his happiness. To a particular friend, he wrote February 25, 1842: Yours of the i6th, announcing that Miss and you are no longer twain, but one flesh, reached me thismorning. I have no way of telling you how much hap-piness I wish you both, though I believe you both canconceive it. I feel somewhat jealous of both of you now,for you will be so exclusively concerned for one anotherthat I shall be forgotten entirely. My acquaintance with Miss (I. call her thus lest you should think I am speaking of your mother), was too short for me toreasonably hope to long be remembered by her; and stillI am sure I shall not forget her soon. Try if you cannotremind her of that debt she owes me, and be sure you donot interfere to prevent her paying it. I regret to learn that you have resolved not to returnto Illinois. I shall be Very lonesome without you. Howmiserably things seem to be arranged in this world! If. 54 Lincolns STORIES and speeches. we have no friends we have no pleasure; and if we havethem, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained bythe loss. I did hope she and you would make your home here,yet I own I have no right to insist. You owe obligationsto her ten thousand times more sacred than any you canowe to others, and in that light let them be respectedand observed. It is natural that she should desireto remain with her relations and friends. As to friends,she should not need them anywhere—she would havethem in abundance here. Give my kind regards to Mr. and his family, partic
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