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Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Speech... delivered at the Cooper Institute, New York (Tribune Tracts no. 4)

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02812 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Place Written: New York Type: Pamphlet Date: 1860 Pagination: 16 p. 22 x 15 cm Order a Copy

1860 election campaign tract, Tribune Tracts #4, first edition. This pamphlet is the first printing of Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech made in New York the same year. Monaghan 30.

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