Selections from the Letters, Speeches, and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln
Boston: Ginn And Company, (1925).
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Later printing. 16mo. xxvii, 140pp. Green cloth. Near fine being Charles Tolhurst Butler's copy with his contemporary name penned on front fly. Charles was the only son of important book collector Lafayette L. Butler.
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Abraham Lincoln
birth name: Abraham Lincoln
born: 2/12/1809
died: 4/15/1865
Biography
Sixteenth president of the United States (1861-65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of the slaves. Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., he came to be regarded as a hero and martyr. He was the inspiration for much literature, including Walt Whitman's poems "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!" Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore