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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. President. Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") to E[dwin] W. Bakewell of Bloomington; Springfield, Illinois, 1 August 1850. 1 page, oblong, 123 x 161mm. (5 x 6/3/8 in.), on pale blue stationery, a few light spots.
LEGAL INSTRUCTIONS FROM A BUSY ATTORNEY
A lawyerly letter in which Lincoln instructs a client in precise detail how to file a Bill, in his absence, with the Circuit Court. At the date of this letter Lincoln had been in Chicago for an important court appearance in the Parker vs. Hoyt trial; on the 25th of July he delivered an address at City Hall eulogizing the late President Zachary Taylor. On the day he penned his letter to Bakewell Lincoln is believed to have been attending the Whig County Convention in Pekin. The busy Lincoln writes: "I have at last found time to draw up a Bill in your case. Inclosed you have it. Get from the Recorder's office a copy of Cole's deed to Campbell, mark it thus: (A) and put it with the Bill, as part of it. Then fill properly the blank date in the bond at the end of the Bill, have some good man to sign his name to the bond [as witness], and file the whole with the clerk of the circuit court. Yours truly A. Lincoln." Published in Collected Works, ed. R.P. Basler, 2:91.
LEGAL INSTRUCTIONS FROM A BUSY ATTORNEY
A lawyerly letter in which Lincoln instructs a client in precise detail how to file a Bill, in his absence, with the Circuit Court. At the date of this letter Lincoln had been in Chicago for an important court appearance in the Parker vs. Hoyt trial; on the 25th of July he delivered an address at City Hall eulogizing the late President Zachary Taylor. On the day he penned his letter to Bakewell Lincoln is believed to have been attending the Whig County Convention in Pekin. The busy Lincoln writes: "I have at last found time to draw up a Bill in your case. Inclosed you have it. Get from the Recorder's office a copy of Cole's deed to Campbell, mark it thus: (A) and put it with the Bill, as part of it. Then fill properly the blank date in the bond at the end of the Bill, have some good man to sign his name to the bond [as witness], and file the whole with the clerk of the circuit court. Yours truly A. Lincoln." Published in Collected Works, ed. R.P. Basler, 2:91.