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Title: Abraham Lincoln before 1860
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Rutledge, Ann, d. 1835
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Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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character;that gem is lost—how and where youknow too well. I have not yet re-gained it; and until I do, I cannottrust myself in any matter of muchimportance. I believe now that hadyou understand my case at the timeas well as I understood yours after-wards by the aid you would havegiven me I should have sailed throughclear, but that does not now afford mesufficient confidence to begin that orthe like of that again. Springfield, IllinoisOctober, 1842... but I began this letter notfor what I have been writing but tosay something on the subject whichyou know to be of such infinite solici-tude to me . . .that you are happiernow than the day you married her Iwell know, for without, you could notbe living . . . but I want to ask aclose question—Are you now in feel-ing as well as judgment glad that youare married as you are? From any-body but me this would be an im-prudent question not to be tolerated;but I know you will pardon it in me.Please answer it quickly as I am im-patient to know.
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Bulletin of the Lincoln National Life Foundation - - - - - Dr. Louis A.Published each week by The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Warren, EditorWayne, Indiana Number 660 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA December 1, 1941 SIXTEEN TRADITIONAL LINCOLN SWEETHEARTS Abraham Lincoln moved to Springfield, Illinois, onApril 15,1837. Three weeks later on May 7,1837, he wrotethis line to Mary Owens, I have been spoken to by butone woman since Ive been here, and would not have beenby her, if she could have avoided it. Yet this bashfulswain is supposed to have courted to at least sixteenwomen before his one true love, Mary Todd, accepted him.Covered Wagon Girl Once when Abraham was a small boy, a wagon brokedown near the Lincoln cabin in Indiana. There was a littlegirl in the family detained by the accident of the vehicle..Lincoln told a friend of the incident and said he took agreat fancy to her. As he thought of her as the yearspassed, he concluded that his affection for her was thebeginning ofabrahamlinxxxxx00linc

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