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Lincoln responds to admirer of the Lincoln-Douglas debates: Jan. 8, 1859

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Introduction

Soon after the election of November 1858, Abraham Lincoln set about collecting a complete set of the newspaper transcriptions of his recent series of seven “joint discussions” with Stephen A. Douglas, now famous as the Lincoln-Douglas debates. This letter is a response to a Pennsylvania printer who requested a copy of the Freeport debates, since he was trying to compile documents to use with his Republican friends who were thinking about defecting to Douglas, and “I know of none that would be more useful than your speeches.”

Abraham Lincoln, autograph letter signed to W.H. Wells
Springfield, 8 Jan. 1859
AMs 1082/29

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