Discoveries and inventions : a lecture / by Abraham Lincoln delivered in 1860.

  • Abraham Lincoln
Date:
1915
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Credit: Discoveries and inventions : a lecture / by Abraham Lincoln delivered in 1860. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vogue. This lecture on “Discoveries and Inventions” was delivered in towns near his home, Springfield,, Illinois, <2 W z>/ Springfield itself on Washington s birthday. Five days later Lincoln made his great speech at Cooper Union in New York. The lecture is not included with any collection of Lincoln s addresses. It ap¬ peared in print for thefirst time in Sun¬ set Magazine inl()0(y—the centennial of Lincoln’’ s birth. The originalmanuscript from which this edition, the first in book form, is made,was a cherished possession of the late Dr. Samuel Houston Melvin, of Oakland, California, formerly a resi¬ dent of Springfield, Illinois, and a friend of Mr. Lincoln. Just prior to Dr. Melvin s death, in 1808, he made