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47 "and transcendent genius": CW, 8:237.
48 "inexpressibly touching": Carpenter, Six Months, p. 59.
48 Sir Walter Scott: Ibid., pp. 6061.
48 "I am ruled": M. L. Houser, Lincoln's Education and Other Essays (New York: Bookman a.s.sociates, 1957), pp. 117118.
48 "he now does": CW, 4:62.
48 "in constant agitation": William J. Wolf, The Almost Chosen People: A Study of the Religion of Abraham Lincoln (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1959), p. 42.
49 "opinion in argument": CW, 1:382.
49 "a thriftless soul": Lincoln let this characterization go uncorrected in Howells, Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 42.
50 "in the world": William H. Townsend, Lincoln and Liquor (New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1934), remains authoritative. See also Wayne C. Temple, "Lincoln's Tavern License," LH 82 (Fall 1980): 463464.
50 "winked out": CW, 4:65.
50 "of a hollow": Townsend, Lincoln and Liquor, p. 37.
50 to purchase liquor: Jason Duncan to WHH, [1866], HWC.
50 "politics an objection": CW, 4:65.
50 "he wanted before": Basler, ed., "James Quay Howard's Notes on Lincoln," ALQ 4 (Dec. 1947): 388.
50 were not onerous: The following paragraphs rely heavily on Benjamin P. Thomas's excellent study, "Lincoln the Postmaster," Bulletin of the Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation, no. 31 (June 1933), pp. 19.
50 $150 and $175: For information on this point I am indebted to Dr. Richard John, who has closely examined the Official Registers of the period. See also Pratt, Personal Finances, pp. 1617.
51 "to 'Frank' it": Thomas, "Lincoln the Postmaster," p. 7. Marsh's letter was written a few weeks after Ann Rutledge's death, when Lincoln may have been more careless than usual in managing the post office.
51 "pay it again": CW, 1:25.
51 receipts, $248.63: Thomas, Lincoln's New Salem, pp. 9899.
51 "went at it": CW, 4:65.
51 to the field: Adin Baber, A. Lincoln with Compa.s.s and Chain (Kansas, Ill., 1968), is the authoritative treatment of Lincoln as surveyor.
51 "poore [sic] man's lot": Mrs. E. Abell to WHH, Feb. 15, 1867, HWC.
51 quarter section surveyed: Thomas, Lincoln's New Salem, p. 103.
52 "the matter satisfactorily": Robert L. Wilson to WHH, Feb. 10, 1866, HWC.
52 "in the Croud": J.R. Herndon to WHH, May 28, 1865, HWC.
