[v-58] Lincoln to Speed, March 24, 1843, Works, i, 261.
[v-59] Lincoln to Morris, March 26, 1843, Works, i, 262-65. See, also, the letter to Morris of April 14, 1843, Works, i, 265-66.
[v-60] General J. M. Ruggles, quoted in Tarbell, i, 195-96; Curtis’s Lincoln, 138.
[v-61] Lincoln to Speed, May 18, 1843, Works, i, 268. This letter was written after the convention. To accord with that fact, the obvious printer’s error in punctuation has been corrected.
[v-62] Lincoln to Hardin, May 11, 1843, Works, i, 266-67.
[v-63] Lincoln’s Autobiography, in Works, vi, 36-37; Scripps, 18, the authorized campaign biography of which Lincoln critically read the advance sheets. See, also: Nicolay, 73-74, 90; Newton, 19; Dr. Robert Boal, in Peoria (Ill.) Herald, February 14, 1899; Gibson W. Harris, in Woman’s Home Companion, December, 1903, p. 15. But to the contrary see: Lamon, 275-77; Herndon, i, 257; Nicolay and Hay, i, 242-43; Morse, i, 72.
[v-64] Baker resigned from Congress to engage in the Mexican War, a few months before the end of his term. The short period that remained was of no interest to the leading Whigs, so a local politician named John Henry secured the office for the unexpired time.
[v-65] Lincoln to Hardin, January 19, 1845, Works, i, 271-74. This letter is also printed in the Lapsley Edition of the Works, ii, 5-8, as of 1845. But the date evidently should be 1846. See also Lincoln to B. F. James, January 16, 1846, Works, i, 285-86.
[v-66] Woman’s Home Companion, December, 1903, p. 15; Browne, 222.