Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lincoln” in chapter 13, page 376 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:
...s influence, declined, because, he said, I long ago made it a rule to publish nothing as editorial matter not written by himself.
Lincoln read the editor's answer to me. Although the laugh was on Lincoln he enjoyed the joke heartily.
That editor, he said, has a rather lofty but proper conception of true journalism.
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