Record Data
Source citation
Abraham Lincoln to Thomas J. Pickett, April 16, 1859, Springfield, IL, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 3: 377, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.
Recipient (to)
Pickett, Thomas J.
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
The following transcript has been adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953).
T.J. Pickett, Esq Springfield,
My dear Sir. April 16. 1859.
Yours of the 13th. is just received. My engagements are such that I can not, at any very early day, visit Rock-Island, to deliver a lecture, or for any other object.
As to the other matter you kindly mention, I must, in candor, say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency. I certainly am flattered, and gratified, that some partial friends think of me in that connection; but I really think it best for our cause that no concerted effort, such as you suggest, should be made.
Let this be considered confidential. Yours very truly
A. LINCOLN---
