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Source citation
Abraham Lincoln, Instructions for John G. Nicolay, [c. July 16, 1860], in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 4: 84, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.
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Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler
Adapted by Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College
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The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
[c. July 16, 1860]
Ascertain what he wants.
On what subjects he would converse with me.
And the particulars if he will give them.
Is an interview indispensable?
Tell him my motto is ``Fairness to all,''
But commit me to nothing.
