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Title: Lincoln centennial number
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896 Presidents
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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otified him of his second nom-ination ; and, a seldom and picturesquerevisitor of his beloved Manhattan, WaltWhitman, who had written Captain,My Captain, and the passionate chanton the death of the President, WhenLilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed.A majestic figure of the time was the poetBryant, who hail presided on the occa-sion of Lincolns Cooper Lmion Speech,when each had been greatly impressedby the other, Lincoln saying It wasworth the journey to the East merely tomeet such a man, and Bryant becoming,soon after, one of Lincolns chief sup-porters for the Presidential nomination. A certain 3oung journalist and authorin the literary group greatly attracted me.I remember writing to him in those daysa boyish, enthusiastic letter enrolling himin the company of good fellows—the dent, the first of any moment to be put iRead before the Minnesota Commandery of the Loyal Legion, at Minneapolis, February 12, 1907Copyright, 1909, by The Century Co. All rights reserved.LXXVII—50 Jilt 9L,
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From a daguerreotype owned by Robert T. Lincoln. Engraved on wood by Thomas Johnson. See Open Letters LINCOLN AS LAWYER Mr. Robert T. Lincoln is of the opinion that this portrait was taken between December, 1847,and March, 1849, during his fathers one term in Congress. LINCOLN THE LEADER 481 good-hearted, the art-loving, the genial, your writing about him, does he seem to There was a special fascination about you larger or less? him. He had a quiet, intense sense of To this, — and I remember the serious-humor; a wit that was genial, though it ness of his manner,—John Hay answered:

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