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The latest volume in Black Dog & Leventhal's notebook series features a rich selection of the public and private letters, notes, telegrams, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, and addresses of Abraham Lincoln.The writings in this collection span from his early years in Indiana, to his time as a lawyer and a congressman in Illinois, to his final years in the White House. Arranged chronologically into topics such as family and friends, the law, politics and the presidency, story-telling, religion, and morality, <i>Abraham Lincoln'</i><i>s Notebooks</i> includes his famous letters to Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Henry Pierce as well as personal letters to Mary Todd Lincoln and his note to Mrs. Bixby, the mother who lost five sons during the Civil War. Also included are full texts of the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, both of Lincoln's inaugural addresses, and his famous "A House Divided" speech.Rarely seen writings like poetry he composed as teenager, candid notes he left on the back of letters (sometimes displaying humor or even annoyance), and scraps of notes that he kept in the inside lining of his top hats (particularly during his years as a lawyer in Illinois) give insight into Lincoln's personality and private life.The text is accompanied throughout by explanatory annotations from Lincoln expert Harold Holzer who also provides introductions to each chapter and a preface.
