Record Data
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
Transcription
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
