LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President . Autograph letter signed ("A.Lincoln") to Norman Judd, Chairman of the National Republican Committee, Springfield, Illinois, 29 April 1859. 1 full page, 4to, on lined stationery, docketed on verso, lightly browned, an ink fingerprint on verso, not affecting text, evidence of old mounting, central fold repaired from verso . [ With :] An unsigned autograph letter to Lincoln from an unidentified recipient, Shawneetown, 18 April 1859, 1 1/2 pages, 4to, asking him to contribute $250 to the Republican party. LINCOLN PROPOSES THE PURCHASE OF A PRINTING PRESS TO PROMOTE THE REPUBLICAN CAUSE AMONG GERMAN-AMERICAN VOTERS A very interesting unpublished letter to the chief Republican Party strategist, in which the Presidential hopeful asks about a plan to purchase a press and type: "...You remember it was said last winter that the press and type for a German paper was here, and could be bought for [$400.00], and Gov[ernor Gustav Philip] Koerner and one or two other German friends were deputed to enquire and decide whether it would be [in] our interest to buy them. I believe they decided in the affirmative. Dr. Canissius resides here now, and this morning he showed me a letter from...Koerner, expressing a wish that the thing may be done. If the thing can be started for [$400.00], and then kept going without more, I too think it ought to be done. By our recent elections here, we seem to be gaining with the Germans; and perhaps it is right to press our own luck while it runs favorably. But I suppose it would be better done by the Central Committee; and if they think proper to do it, I suppose the money could be raised here, on their checks. I will pay fifty dollars any day you draw. Think of this too..." Not in Basler and Supplements, and apparently unpublished. Norman Buel Judd (1815-1878), a prominent Republican, had forced Lincoln to throw his support to Anti-Nebraska Democrat Lyman Trumbull in the balloting of 1855 for Illinois Senator. By 1858, however, the two had reconciled; Judd delivered Lincoln's 1858 letter to Stephen A. Douglas proposing the famous Lincoln-Douglas Debates and later nominated Lincoln for President at the Chicago Republican Convention in 1860 (Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982, pp. 168-169). (2)
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President . Autograph letter signed ("A.Lincoln") to Norman Judd, Chairman of the National Republican Committee, Springfield, Illinois, 29 April 1859. 1 full page, 4to, on lined stationery, docketed on verso, lightly browned, an ink fingerprint on verso, not affecting text, evidence of old mounting, central fold repaired from verso . [ With :] An unsigned autograph letter to Lincoln from an unidentified recipient, Shawneetown, 18 April 1859, 1 1/2 pages, 4to, asking him to contribute $250 to the Republican party. LINCOLN PROPOSES THE PURCHASE OF A PRINTING PRESS TO PROMOTE THE REPUBLICAN CAUSE AMONG GERMAN-AMERICAN VOTERS A very interesting unpublished letter to the chief Republican Party strategist, in which the Presidential hopeful asks about a plan to purchase a press and type: "...You remember it was said last winter that the press and type for a German paper was here, and could be bought for [$400.00], and Gov[ernor Gustav Philip] Koerner and one or two other German friends were deputed to enquire and decide whether it would be [in] our interest to buy them. I believe they decided in the affirmative. Dr. Canissius resides here now, and this morning he showed me a letter from...Koerner, expressing a wish that the thing may be done. If the thing can be started for [$400.00], and then kept going without more, I too think it ought to be done. By our recent elections here, we seem to be gaining with the Germans; and perhaps it is right to press our own luck while it runs favorably. But I suppose it would be better done by the Central Committee; and if they think proper to do it, I suppose the money could be raised here, on their checks. I will pay fifty dollars any day you draw. Think of this too..." Not in Basler and Supplements, and apparently unpublished. Norman Buel Judd (1815-1878), a prominent Republican, had forced Lincoln to throw his support to Anti-Nebraska Democrat Lyman Trumbull in the balloting of 1855 for Illinois Senator. By 1858, however, the two had reconciled; Judd delivered Lincoln's 1858 letter to Stephen A. Douglas proposing the famous Lincoln-Douglas Debates and later nominated Lincoln for President at the Chicago Republican Convention in 1860 (Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982, pp. 168-169). (2)
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