Abraham Lincoln to Richard W. Thompson, June 18, 1860

    Source citation
    Abraham Lincoln to Richard W. Thompson, June 18, 1860, Springfield, IL, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 4: 79, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.
    Recipient (to)
    Thompson, Richard W.
    Type
    Letter
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler
    Adapted by Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following transcript has been adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953).

    PRIVATE
    Hon: R. W. Thompson: Springfield, Ills.

    My dear Sir: June 18. 1860
    Your long letter of the 12th. is just received, and read. I write this to thank you for it; and to say I would like for you to converse freely with Hon: Henry Winter Davis. And lest he be compromitted, by inference from this, let me say that he and I never met, or corresponded. Very truly your friend. A. LINCOLN

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