Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . ute back to Illinois. The text of the letter, including rather casual punctuation and the word overstaid, now an archaic spelling, follows: My Dear Sir: •Yours of the 29th ult. Cover ing check for $200 was receivedhere yesterday—Since I left New-York I have spoken at Providence,R I. and at Concord, Manchester,Dover, and Exeter, in this State,and I still am to speak at Hart-ford, Meriden and New-Haven, inConn. And at Woonsocket in R. I.—Then I shall close, and start forhome—I suppose I shall get awayfrom Woonsocket Friday morn-ing, and go directly
Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . ute back to Illinois. The text of the letter, including rather casual punctuation and the word overstaid, now an archaic spelling, follows: My Dear Sir: •Yours of the 29th ult. Cover ing check for $200 was receivedhere yesterday—Since I left New-York I have spoken at Providence,R I. and at Concord, Manchester,Dover, and Exeter, in this State,and I still am to speak at Hart-ford, Meriden and New-Haven, inConn. And at Woonsocket in R. I.—Then I shall close, and start forhome—I suppose I shall get awayfrom Woonsocket Friday morn-ing, and go directly to New-York—Much as I appreciate your kind-ness allow me to beg that youwill make no arrangement to de-tain me—Having overstaid my al-lotted time so greatly, I musthurry home— Yours very truly,A. letter was offered to thelibrary by F. G. Sweet, a NewYork bookseller. Robert W. Hill,the librarys keeper of manu-scripts, said Thursday that finan-cial stringencies make it un-likely that the library wouldmake the Bulletin of the Lincoln National Foundation ------ Dr. Louis A. Warren, Editor Published each week by The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana Number 1378 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA September 5, 1955 LINCOLNS $200 SPEECH There must have been some feeling of satisfaction onthe part of Abraham Lincoln when he was offered $200to deliver an address in Brooklyn N. Y. on the thePlymouth lecture course during the winter season of1859-1860. He could not have surmised, however, theembarrassment this money consideration was to causethe young men sponsoring the program and the personalcriticism which was to fall upon him, because of thecompensation. James A. Briggs seems to have been the chief sourceof information about the financial aspects of Lincolnsvisit to New York where he addressed an audience atCooper Union on February 27, 1860. As early as October1859 Briggs wrote two letters for a group of young men,Joseph H. Richards, J.
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