Abraham Lincoln to Grace Bedell, October 19, 1860

    Source citation
    Abraham Lincoln to Grace Bedell, October 19, 1860, Springfield, IL, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 4: 129, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.
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    Letter
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    Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler
    Adapted by Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    The following transcript has been adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953).

    Private
    Miss. Grace Bedell Springfield, Ills.
    My dear little Miss. Oct 19. 1860

    Your very agreeable letter of the 15th. is received.

    I regret the necessity of saying I have no daughters. I have three sons---one seventeen, one nine, and one seven, years of age. They, with their mother, constitute my whole family.

    As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affection if I were to begin it now? Your very sincere well-wisher A. LINCOLN.

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