Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2 [Sept. 3, 1848-Aug. 21, 1858].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2 [Sept. 3, 1848-Aug. 21, 1858].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To William Martin1Jump to section

Hon: Wm. Martin Springfield,
Dear Sir: Aug: 29. 1851

I have just seen a letter of yours to Mr. Hickox,2Jump to section in which you reiterate that the publications for the calls were all made in the [sic] both the city papers at Springfield. May be they were; but I tell you if they were, neither I, nor the editors or publisher's of the papers can find them. All we can find is a publication made in time, for the first call, & one for the second, not in time. Surely you can not suppose I would be so pertenaceously urging you to send the publications, if I had them here already.

You also say ``If we had been informed that these books & witness were needed a week ago &c''

Well, nearly or quite six months ago,3Jump to section you & I by our correspondence, had it distinctly settled that I should need this book, witness & newspapers, when the trials of my cases should come on; and you had distinctly promised me that you would send them up whenever I should want them. Now, send them at once, if you shall not have done so already. Yours as ever

A. LINCOLN

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[1] ALS, IHi.

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[2] Virgil Hickox.

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[3] See letters of February 19 and June 23, 1851, supra.

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