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[1] ADS-F, Allen T. Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln (1888), p. 607. According to the artist Thomas Hicks, who had painted Lincoln's portrait in June, 1860, the memorandum was jotted down at his request as he was leaving Springfield.