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for searching only. 152 january 1866
all Came down and had a Conversation about who had maid the mistake but it Could not be decided So ended the Chapter
i will tell you a Joke about Jouel and mary it is neither a Joke nor a tory for rubin and Charles has maried two girles but biley has maried a boy the girles he had tried on every Side but none could he get to agree all was in vain he went home again and sens that he is maried to natty
so biley and naty agreed very well and mamas well pleased at the matc[h] the egg it is laid but Natys afraid the Shell is So Soft that it never will hatc[h] but betsy She Said you Cursed ball head my Suiter you never Can be besids your low Croch proclaimes you a botch and that never Can anser for me
this is memorised by Mrs elizeabeth Crawford an oald blind lady that Can hardly See ritten by her Son and farweded S A Crawford
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114. Richard J. Oglesby to WHH
Spring‚eld Ills Jany 5d 1866 Dear friend
I have just read the Synopsis of your lecture ¿on the Life and character of Abraham Lincoln1 I regret I did not hear you deliver it. Your discriptions and delineations of the great man Üare true hapy and most complete Ügiven with more Effect than I have ever before heard. You constantly reproduce him to his old friends, The discription of his Journey to the market house and return is vigorous and full of Spirit. The closing Sentence struck me with such force I almost felt his presence again this sentence ought not to be forgotten ¿Sometimes it appeared to me that Lincolns Soul was Just fresh from the presence of its creatorî Do you know that at times I have been similarly impressed by that good man,
1. Oglesby refers to WHH's ‚rst lecture on AL, delivered on December 12, 1865.
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