Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lincoln” in chapter 11, page 314 of William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik:
...ted States Court; second, when I received the letter I put it in my old hat and buying a new one the next day the old one was set aside, and so the letter was lost sight of for a time.
This hat of Lincoln 's — a silk plug — was an extraordinary receptacle.
It was his desk and his memorandum-book.
In it he carried
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