Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) to Richard Yates re: urging him to run for election for Illinois governor
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02315 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Place Written: Springfield, [Ill.] Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1857/09/30 Pagination: 1 p. 22 x 14 cm Order a Copy
Yates served as governor of Illinois during the Civil War. Basler 2: 424.
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. II 1848 - 1858,
p. 424
Springfield, Sept. 30. 1857.
Hon. R. Yates.
Dear Sir:
Your letter, called out by the letter of J. O. Johnson, was received by me on my return from Chicago.
Mr. Johnson wrote the letter by concert with me; and is entirely reliable. He is a new-comer; but he can devote more time to getting up an organization, than any one I know, who knows as well as he, how to do it.
And now, let me say, I wish you could make up your mind to come to the Legislature from Morgan next time. You can be elected, and I doubt some whether any other friend can. It will be something of a sacrafice [sic] to you; but can you not make it?
Yours as ever
A. Lincoln.
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