Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5 [Oct. 24, 1861-Dec. 12, 1862].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5 [Oct. 24, 1861-Dec. 12, 1862].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To Samuel B. Tobey1Jump to section

Executive Mansion,
Dr. Samuel Boyd Tobey: Washington, March 19, 1862.

My dear Sir: A domestic affliction, of which doubtless you are informed, has delayed me so long in making acknowledgment for the very kind and appropriate letter, signed, on behalf, and by direction of a Meeting of the Representatives of the Society of Friends for New-England, held at Providence, Rhode Island the 8th. of second month 1862, by Samuel Boyce, clerk, and presented to me by yourself and associates.

Engaged, as I am, in a great war, I fear it will be difficult for the world to understand how fully I appreciate the principles of peace, inculcated in this letter, and everywhere, by the Society of Friends. Grateful to the good people you represent for their prayers in behalf of our common country, I look forward hopefully to an early end of war, and return of peace. Your obliged friend

A. LINCOLN

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[1] ADfS, DLC-RTL. William Sprague wrote Lincoln on February 8, 1862, introducing ``the bearer Dr Samuel Boyd Tobey and his associates. . . . Dr Tobey is the foremost member of the Society of Friends in New England. . . .'' (Ibid.). With this letter in the Lincoln Papers is an autograph copy of an address to the president from the meeting of the representatives of the Society of Friends at Providence, Rhode Island, February 5, 1862, expressing loyalty and thanks to the president for his administration, particularly in the settlement of the Trent affair. Lincoln confused the date of Sprague's letter with that of the address.

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