[TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:]
Every effort has been made to faithfully reproduce the original book in this etext. The inconsistent, alternate and archaic spelling and usage that one would expect in a collection of poets and authors from 1915 and earlier have been preserved. Errors in the Index, obvious and simple enough to be assumed typesetter's errors, have been corrected. Other problems and corrections are listed below.
| Page: | 1 |
| Text: | [extends his grateful acknowledgment][top] |
| Change: | acknowledgement changed to acknowledgment (to match spelling of section title) |
| Page: | 6 |
| Text: | [Abraham Lincoln Foully Assassinated, by Tom Taylor] |
| Change: | removed comma after Taylor |
| Page: | 11 |
| Text: | [The Funeral of Lincoln, in East Room of White House] |
| Change: | removed comma after White House |
| Page: | xvi |
| Text: | [Yours truly,] |
| Change: | Comma added |
| Page: | xvii |
| Text: | [It matters not to me whether Shakspeare be well or ill acted] |
| Change: | Shakespeare changed to Shakspeare (alternate spelling used by Carpenter) |
| Page: | xx |
| Text: | [performed this function in a still more] |
| Change: | added the word "in" |
| Page: | 22 |
| Text: | [Like all great souls with vision unobscured] |
| Change: | version changed to vision |
| Page: | 116 |
| Text: | [May be forgotten by and by] |
| Change: | fogotten changed to forgotten |
| Page: | 117 |
| Text: | [Shrewd, hallowed, harassed] |
| Change: | harrassed changed to harassed |
| Page: | 172 |
| Text: | [(5) Hon. W. H. Wallace, Idaho][top] |
| Change: | Walace change to Wallace |
| Page: | 172 |
| Text: | [(3) Hon. Lyman Trumbull, Illinois] |
| Change: | Hon changed to Hon. |
| Page: | 189 |
| Text: | [And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn] |
| Change: | wealth changed to wreath |
| Page: | 216 |
| Text: | [He filled the Nation's eyes and heart] |
| Change: | We changed to He |
| Page: | 216 |
| Text: | [Pathetic, kindly, droll or stern] |
| Change: | added comma after Pathetic |
| Page: | 223 |
| Text: | [Here, Captain! dear Father!] |
| Change: | Hear changed to Here |
| Page: | 243 |
| Text: | [funds to remove it from] |
| Change: | extra "to" removed |
| Page: | 252 |
| Text: | [The George A. Fuller Company of Washington] |
| Change: | removed comma after Company |
[Harper's Bazar] (page 109) did not change the spelling to Bazaar until about 1929.
No poet is mentioned for ["The Deathbed"] on page 145. However, this poem seems to be "Now He Belongs to the Ages" by William L. Stidger, from The Lincoln Book of Poems, published by R. G. Badger, copyright 1911, page 30. (available on archive.org)
Pages [v], [vi] and [vii] refer to Lincoln's correspondent as both Johnson and Johnston. Left as printed.