With Malice Toward None

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition    

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In a letter to Thurlow Weed written shortly after delivering his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln wrote: “I expect the latter [the inaugural address] to wear as well as—perhaps better than—anything I have produced; but I believe it is not immediately popular. Lincoln reprised the closing paragraph of his address in this autograph book belonging to Caroline R. Wright, wife of former Indiana Governor Joseph Albert Wright.
In a letter to Thurlow Weed written shortly after delivering his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln wrote: “I expect the latter [the inaugural address] to wear as well as—perhaps better than—anything I have produced; but I believe it is not immediately popular. Lincoln reprised the closing paragraph of his address in this autograph book belonging to Caroline R. Wright, wife of former Indiana Governor Joseph Albert Wright.