Show a bors A new york firm applied to abraham lincoln some years before he be became president for information as to the financial standing of one of his hia neighbors mr lincoln replied as ai follows yours of the instant received I 1 am well acquainted with mr 21 X and know his circumstances first of all he be has a wife and baby together they ought to be worth zio secondly se he has an office in which there are a table worth and three chairs worth say 1 last of an all there is in one corner a large rat hole which will bear looking into P respectfully EC full fully Y yours A lincoln current literature |