Abraham Lincoln to E. Stafford, March 17, 1860

    Source citation
    Abraham Lincoln to E. Stafford, March 17, 1860, Springfield, IL, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 4: 33, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.
    Recipient (to)
    E. Stafford
    Type
    Letter
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler
    Adapted by Michael Blake, Dickinson College
    The following transcript has been adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953).

    Springfield, Illinois, March 17, 1860.

    Dear Sir: Reaching home on the 14th instant, I found yours of the 1st. Thanking you very sincerely for your kind purposes toward me, I am compelled to say the money part of the arrangement you propose is, with me, an impossibility. I could not raise ten thousand dollars if it would save me from the fate of John Brown. Nor have my friends, so far as I know, yet reached the point of staking any money on my chances of success. I wish I could tell you better things, but it is even so. Yours very truly,

    A. LINCOLN.

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