<p>A master storyteller and talented mimic Lincoln's humor was the product of his upbringing in the frontiers of Kentucky Indiana and Illinois where tall tales and exaggeration were key ingredients to good jokes and effective tools in the courtrooms and legislative halls. For some it made him more appealing and approachable to the common man. For others his coarse backwoods humor was undignified reinforcing their belief that he was unfit to be president.</p><p>This manuscript utilizes a series of "spoonerisms" in which the storyteller transposes the first few letters of two adjacent or nearby words for humorous effect. Its namesake Rev. William Archibald Spooner of New College Oxford University was allegedly prone to unintentionally making such mistakes in speaking</p><p><strong>Complete Transcript</strong><br /><em>He said he was riding <u>bass-ackwards</u> on a <u>jass-ack</u> through a <u>patton-cotch</u> on a pair of <u>baddle-sags</u> stuffed full of <u>binger-gred</u> when the animal <u>steered</u> at a <u>scump</u> and the <u>lirrup-steather</u> broke and throwed him in the <u>forner</u> of the <u>kence</u> and broke his <u>pishing-fole</u>. He said he would not have minded it much but </em><em>he</em><em>fell right in a great <u>tow-curd</u>; in fact he said it give him </em><em>a</em><em>right smart <u>sick</u> of <u>fitness</u>he had the <u>molera-corbus</u> pretty bad. He said about <u>bray</u> <u>dake</u> he come to himself ran home seized up a <u>stick</u> of <u>wood</u> and split the <u>axe</u> to make a light rushed into the house and found the <u>door</u> sick abed and his <u>wife</u> standing open. But thank goodness she is getting right <u>hat</u> and <u>farty</u> again.</em></p><p><strong>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</strong> Autograph Manuscript "Bass-Ackwards" story ca. 1845-1850 Springfield IL. 1 p. 7 x 8.5 in.</p><p><strong>Historical Background</strong><br />C. F. Gunther of Chicago told Jesse W. Weik that Lincoln penned this for a bailiff in the Springfield courts. It was first published by Emanuel Hertz in <em>The Hidden Lincoln</em> in 1938. It once belonged to the Illinois State Historical Library in Springfield which traded it for a first edition of the <em>Book of Mormon</em>. According to auctioneer Charles Hamilton one collector considered it so unworthy of Lincoln's sacred memory he bid intending to burn it! Fortunately he lost.</p><p><strong>Provenance</strong><br />Abraham Lincoln to a bailiff of a Springfield court reportedly Arnold R. Robinson > The Illinois State Historical Library gift of a descendant > Charles Hamilton Galleries May 16 1963. See account in Hamilton <em>Auction Madness</em> 119: "This unsigned bit of Lincolniana was knocked down for $4000 at one of my earliest auctions nearly twenty years ago. What would it fetch today!" > Lindley and Charles Eberstadt > Parke-Bernet Galleries Eberstadt sale October 13 1964 lot 124 described as being "the most intimate and unusual Lincoln document known to survive" and "perhaps the greatest Presidential character piece extant" > Christie's a Western Collector December 9 1994 lot 84 > Louise Taper Beverly Hills California > The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Foundation 2007 > Freeman's/Hindman May 21 2025 lot 21.</p><p><strong>Exhibitions</strong><br /><em>The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America</em> at the Huntington Library October 1993-August 1994<br /><em>Abraham Lincoln: A Personal Journey</em> at the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum October 12 2001February 18 2002</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> Silked; creasing from folds; small losses along folds affecting a few letters; small marginal loss in upper right corner not affecting text; scattered spotting.</p>
The Nation's Success and Gratitude. Philadelphia: Henry B. Ashmead 1864. 8.5" x 5.75" inches. Pink wrappers. An address given in Danville Kentrucky on Thanksgiving 1863. Scarce printing of an address thought to be given by famous Presbyterian minister and educator Robert Jefferson Breckinridge. Delivered like a sermon but addresses earthly considerations such as the state of the war and politics. Includes a printing of Lincoln's letter "The Negroes and the War" from April 4 1864. In this letter Lincoln is unapologetic about his measure to arm and enlist African-Americans in the border states into the Union Army. Lincoln writes "When in March and May and July 1862 I made earnest and successive appeals to hte Border States to favor compensated emancipation I believed.military emancipation and arming the blacks would come unless averted by that measure. They declined the proposition and I was in my best judgment driven to the alternative of either surrendering the Union an with it the Constitution or of laying strong hand upon the colored element. I chose the latter." Wrappers are soiled at front small closed tear near spine but interior is clean. Overall in good condition. unknown
<p>1836. No binding. Fine. Autograph Letter Signed to Mary S. Owens December 13 1836 2 pp. 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. ""Write back as soon as you get this and if possible say something that will please me for really I have not been pleased since I left you.""Here Lincoln perfectly demonstrates what Owens later described as deficiencies ""in those little links which make up the chain of a woman's happiness."" Rather than expressing his feelings for Owens Lincoln complains about his health and discusses political issues swirling in the Illinois General Assembly. Although inept at love the letter offers rare insight into the young representative's thoughts on a variety of political issues. In this highly important letter to Mary Owens a self-absorbed Lincoln complains to his potential spouse of his health both physical and mental and discusses political issues to the point that he describes his own letter as ""dry and stupid."" Perhaps more revealing than he realized it illustrates the tension in Lincoln's early life between matters of the head with which he was comfortable and matters of the heart with which he clearly was not. Complete Transcript Vandalia Decr 13. 1836Mary I have been sick ever since my arrival here or I should have written sooner. It is but little difference however as I have verry little even yet to write. And more the longer I can avoid the mortification of looking in the Post Office for your letter and not finding it the better. You see I am mad about that old letter yet. I dont like verry well to risk you again. I'll try you once more anyhow. The new State House is not yet finished and consequently the legislature is doing little or nothing. The Governor delivered an inflamitory political message and it is expected there will be some sparring between the parties about it as soon as the two Houses get to business. Taylor delivered up his petitions for the New County to one of our members this morning. I am told that he despairs of its success on account of all the members from Morgan County opposing it. There are names enough on the petitions I think to justify the members from our county in going for it; but if the members from Morgan oppose it which they say they will the chance will be bad. Our chance to take the seat of Government to Springfield is better than I expected. An Internal Improvement Convention was held here since we met which recommended a loan of several millions of dollars on the faith of the state to construct Rail Roads. Some of the legislature are for it and some against it; which has the majority I can <2> not tell. There is great strife and struggling for the office of U.S. Senator here at this time. It is probable we shall ease their pains in a few days. The opposition men have no candidate of their own and consequently they smile as complacently at the angry snarls of the contending Van Buren candidates and their respective friends as the Christian does at Satan's rage. You recollect I mentioned in the outset of this letter that I had been unwell. That is the fact though I belive I am about well now; but that with other things I can not account for have conspired and have gotten my spirits so low that I feel that I would rather be any place in the world than here. I really can not endure the thought of staying here ten weeks. Write back as soon as you get this and if possible say something that will please me for really I have not been pleased since I left you. This letter is so dry and stupid that I am ashamed to send it but with my present feelings I can not do any better. Give my respects to Mr & Mrs Abell and family. Your friend LincolnMiss Mary S. OwensHistoric BackgroundThis is one of the ten oldest Lincoln letters known to have survived. Although 11 leaves 9 of which are in institutions from Lincoln's educational sum book a few documents written or signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1832 relating to his service in the Black Hawk War again mos. See website for full description</p>
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Boston: Walker Fuller and Company 1865. Hardcover. Early Printing "Third Thousand." 4.25 x 6.5in. viii. 186pp. iv. Publisher's pebbled cloth boards with gilt titling. NEAR FINE. Shows marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities else Fine. An exceptionally maintained copy. As pictured. Walker, Fuller, and Company hardcover
London / New York: The Chesterfield Society 1908. Book. Very Good. Three-Quarter Leather. Special Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Centenary Edition Deluxe. Copyright date 1908 by the Lincoln Centenary Society. Lincoln was born February 12 1809. Three-quarter dark-red morocco leather binding with off-white cloth boards and gilt lettering and Art-Nouveau style floral decoration on the spine. Gilt-covered top edge. Marbled endpapers. xxiv 417 pages. Untrimmed page edges. Frontispiece portrait of Lincoln protected with tissue and eight other b/w illustrations on glossy plates. Large and heavy book measuring 8 1/2" x 5 3/4" x 1 5/8" and weighing 2 pounds. In VERY GOOD condition. Top edge of spine chipped away with loss of lettering. Heavy wear to the leather joints and cracking to the inner hinges but still secure. Light surface wear to the spine but with gilt remaining very bright and unworn. Rubbed leather corner tips. Otherwise Fine. Bright and clean tight and square with no bumping or sunning. Nearly immaculate interior with bright clean flawless pages. No previous owner signature or bookplate. The Chesterfield Society Hardcover
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