Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To Willie Smith1Jump to section

Executive Mansion, Washington,
Master Willie Smith: February 23, 1864.

Your friend, Leroy C. Driggs, tells me you are a very earnest friend of mine, for which please allow me to thank you. You and those of your age are to take charge of this country when we older ones shall have gone; and I am glad to learn that you already take so lively an interest in what just now so deeply concerns us. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN

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[1] Angle, p. 343. Angle's note is as follows: ``Willie Smith was a lad some twelve years of age who had conceived an unusually strong admiration for Lincoln. Among his father's friends was Leroy C. Driggs, who told Lincoln of the boy's feeling for him.'' No further information has been found.

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