- GLC#
- GLC06648.02-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 15, 1874
- Author/Creator
- Herndon, William H., 1818-1891
- Title
- to Mr. Noyes
- Place Written
- Sangamon County, Illinois
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 24.8 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Replies to a request for a lecture on Abraham Lincoln's religion. Describes Lincoln as "a kind - tender & sympathetic man feeling deeply in the presence of suffering - pain - wrong or oppression in any shape: he was the very essence and substance of truth ..." States that in the 25 years he knew Lincoln, he never knew him to do a wrong thing. "I never knew so true a man - so good a one - so just a one - so uncorrupted and so uncorruptable a one." Remarks at the end that Lincoln was not a social man.
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