David Turnham, Esq Springfield, Ills.
My dear old friend: Oct. 23. 1860
My dear old friend: Oct. 23. 1860
Your kind letter of the 17th. is received. I am indeed very glad to learn you are still living and well. I well remember when you
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861].
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861].
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- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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and I last met, after a separation of fourteen years, at the crossroad voting place, in the fall of 1844. It is now sixteen years more and we are both no longer young men. I suppose you are a grandfather; and I, though married much later in life, have a son nearly grown.
I would much like to visit the old home, and old friends of my boyhood, but I fear the chance for doing so soon, is not very good. Your friend & sincere well-wisher A. LINCOLN