President Lincoln writes a letter of thanks for “a pair of socks so fine”
On 4 Dec 1861, President Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to my 5th great grandmother, Susannah Crume Weathers, thanking her for a letter and gift she had recently sent him: “a pair of socks so fine”. It seems quite funny and odd on the surface of it, and yet how quaint, charming, and even noble it is. The letter is inspirational to me, as it exemplifies President Lincoln’s unpretentious and accessible character. Below is the letter as reproduced in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 5 (Wildside Press, 2008). How I’d love to see the original letter Abraham Lincoln had … Read more
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