Annotation
[1] ALS-P, ISLA. Grigsby's letter of July 19 is not in the Lincoln Papers. He was a boyhood friend of Lincoln's in Spencer County, Indiana, who was living in Missouri at the time of the letter.
[2] William Grigsby?
[3] Abbreviation for Indiana.
[4] Charles Grigsby had bought Thomas Lincoln's farm in 1830 when the Lincolns left Indiana for Illinois.
[5] John Gorden wrote from Buffalo, Missouri, February 7 and June 15, 1860 (DLC-RTL).