Excerpt from Life of Abraham Lincoln J The late Joseph Medill, a former partner of my father in the Chi cago Tribune, wrote me in 1895 I remember the pamphlet very well, as I both furnished considerable material worked into it by your father, and circulated it throughout the United States. I have not seen a copy of it since the great fire of I 87 I in Chicago. All the copies we had in The Tribune were consumed in the fire of '71 Your father was never satisfied with the pamphlet, because Lincoln insisted on pruning out of it many of its most readable and interesting passages in regard to Lincoln 's early life and other matters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.