"Reminiscences about Lincoln"

[John Hartwell]

FYI: archive.org has online a huge collection of scrapbooks, etc, (312 volumes) containing the recollections of people from all works of life who personally met Abraham Lincoln. These are from many sources: newspaper and magazine clippings, manuscript or typed letters, etc. Their value (and, occasionally, their veracity, varies widely). They come from the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, and are arranged alphabetically by writer. The collection also includes many published pamphlets and books of reminiscences of and about Lincoln.

An example, from: https://archive.org/details/reminiscenceshartzhazlinc/page/n39:

 

[connecticut yankee]

...And I'd give 25 cents right now for the relief of soldiers of the rebellion if I could shake the hand of "the old rail splitter".

 

[John Hartwell]

From the same volume:

 

[unionblue]

@John Hartwell ,

Sure would like to read more stories if you would be willing to post them.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

 

[John Hartwell]

@John Hartwell ,

Sure would like to read more stories if you would be willing to post them.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

I'd be happy to, UB. But, frankly it's a bit of a bother.
Short ones are easier:

[Chi.Sun, 2/12/1944]

But longer ones demand more "calisthenics":

[Philadelphia Evening Bullein, 2/12/1937]​

And, the most interesting are often are very long.

There are a LOT of them, and searching out something really good can take a while, and, it's not often easy to clip a screenshot or isolate an image from them. Clip, copy, crop, resize, whatever.

Besides, the archive.org website is free, and you could spend hours wandering through those 300+ scrapbooks .

 

[unionblue]

I'd be happy to, UB. But, frankly it's a bit of a bother.
Short ones are easier: View attachment 213014[Chi.Sun, 2/12/1944]

But longer ones demand more "calisthenics": View attachment 213015
[Philadelphia Evening Bullein, 2/12/1937]​

And, the most interesting are often are very long.

There are a LOT of them, and searching out something really good can take a while, and, it's not often easy to clip a screenshot or isolate an image from them. Clip, copy, crop, resize, whatever.

Besides, the archive.org website is free, and you could spend hours wandering through those 300+ scrapbooks .

I understand and forgive my own laziness at looking up the articles for myself.

 

[WJC]

Great stories! Thanks for sharing!

 

[treebie2000]

I'd be happy to, UB. But, frankly it's a bit of a bother.
Short ones are easier: View attachment 213014[Chi.Sun, 2/12/1944]

But longer ones demand more "calisthenics": View attachment 213015
[Philadelphia Evening Bullein, 2/12/1937]​

And, the most interesting are often are very long.

There are a LOT of them, and searching out something really good can take a while, and, it's not often easy to clip a screenshot or isolate an image from them. Clip, copy, crop, resize, whatever.

Besides, the archive.org website is free, and you could spend hours wandering through those 300+ scrapbooks .

Thanks for using your time to share these with all of us.
It is appreciated.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Ah. The snipping tool has been a crop saver. Tough to always enlarge enough doing it that way, please excuse if anyone has to squint a little.

These are terrific, Jno, thanks for the link, and see quite a few threads, too.

Not an encounter with Lincoln, but a 1939 reminder he was here.

Quite a few ' marble ' stories, must have been true. He bowled, too- by accounts poorly but with gusto. Hope to find more on the bowling because the alley was attached to the public house my grgrgrandparents kept in D.C..

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

 

[JPK Huson 1863]