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grigsby being present got veary mad over it but naty who maried biley being present af‚rmed the Saim to be facts i am very ancious for one of the Books of your grate intended work yours truly
S. A. Crawford
LC: HW2419; HL: LN2408, 1:190
117. Robert T. Lincoln to WHH
Chicago Jan 8/66 My dear Mr Herndon Both of your letters have been received. I should have answered the ‚rst one immediately, but I have been very much pressed.
I was not aware that my mother had written you & so of course I did not compose the letter you have received. I had seen a synopsis of your lecture & I assure you I saw nothing in it at which to take umbrage. In the ‚rst place, I would not judge a discourse by an abstract of it Übut more than all, even when I differ with anyone in his views of my father's character &c. unless it were something ‚agrantly wrong, I would not discuss the subject.
While it is true that the details of the private life of a public man have always a great interest in the minds of some Üit is after all his works which make him live Ü & the rest is but secondary.
I am extremely sorry to perceive that you seem to think that I bear ill-will towards you, from the correspondence which arose out of a misunderstanding Übeg you to believe that nothing is further from the truth ÜMy feelings towards are of the kindest & I wish I had some means of proving them Ü
Sincerely Yours
Robert T. Lincoln
LC: HW2420¬21
118. Henry McHenry to WHH
Petersburg Ill Jan 8th 1866. Dear sir
Yours of the 10th ult came to hand in due time I should have answered it before this but I con‚dently expected to have seen you face to face before this, & now, I promise you I will be up in a few days. I will say however some thing about the Points of which you spoke, 1st As to the condition of Lincoln's Mind after the death of Miss R. after that Event he seemed quite changed, he seemed Retired, & loved Solitude, he seemed wraped in profound thought, indifferent, to transpiring Events, had but Little to say, but would take his gun and wander off in the woods by him self, away from the association of even those he most esteemed, this
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