Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mrs. O. H. Browning” in chapter 8 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:
...der is now referred to the most ludicrous letter Mr. Lincoln ever wrote.
It has been said, but with how much truth I do not know, that during his term as President the lady to whom it was written-- Mrs. O. H. Browning , wife of a fellow-member of the Legislature — before giving a copy of it to a biographer, wrote to Lincoln asking his consent to the publication, but that he answered warning her against it bec...
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