[v-32] Works, i, 135-37.

[v-33] Joshua F. Speed in Herndon, i, 161-63; Speed, 17-18; Speed, in Oldroyd, 143-45; Master, 50-52, 446.

[v-34] Holland, 97-98.

[v-35] Eulogy on Henry Clay, in Works, ii, 165.

[v-36] In the ballot for Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives on December 3, 1838, William Lee D. Ewing received 43 votes, and Abraham Lincoln 38 votes. In a similar contest on November 24, 1840, Ewing received 46 votes, and Lincoln 36 votes.

[v-37] Browne’s Lincoln and Men, 185.

[v-38] White, 19-20.

[v-39] Joseph D. Roper, in Springfield (Ill.) Journal, January 30, 1909.

[v-40] Gibson W. Harris, in Woman’s Home Companion, December, 1903, p. 15.

[v-41] Herndon, ii, 45.