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Lincoln : passages from his speeches and letters / with an introduction by Richard Watson Gilder.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 781
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, author.
- Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909, author of introduction.
- Series:
- Thumb-nail series
- [The thumb-nail series]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Oratory.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Correspondence.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Oratory.
- Genre:
- speeches (documents)
- personal correspondence.
- Speeches
- Personal correspondence
- Speeches.
- Personal correspondence.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xlvii, [1], 204 pages : portrait ; 11 cm
- 16mo.
- Manufacture:
- New York : De Vinne Press
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Century Co., MCMI [1901].
- Contents:
- Lincoln's ambition
- To a friend
- Advice to young lawyers
- Slavery
- The real Southern view of slavery
- The right of self-government
- Meaning of the Declaration of Independence
- "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
- Resistance to the Supreme Court
- Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
- Notes for speeches
- The Negro included in the Declaration of Independence
- The Dred Scott decision
- The wrong of slavery
- The principles of Jefferson
- A look into the future
- Autobiographical
- An appeal to the South
- Farewell address at Springfield, Illinois, February 11, 1861
- From his reply to the address of welcome at Indianapolis, Indiana, February 11, 1861
- Address in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, February 22, 1861
- First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
- Letter to Horace Greeley
- Dependence upon God
- Meditation on the divine will
- Letter to General McClellan
- Telegram to General McClellan
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Letter to the workingmen of Manchester, England
- Letter to General Hooker
- Letter to General Grant
- Letter to J.C. Conkling
- The Gettysburg Address
- Response to a serenade
- Letter of condolence to Mrs. Bixby of Boston, Massachusetts
- Second Inaugural Address.
- Notes:
- Series title taken from box.
- Binding designed by Blanche McManus.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in box.
- OCLC:
- 6798059
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