BURLINGTON, October 25, '60.
I know I may assume without vanity that you will be sorry to hear I have resigned my place on B. & M. — I know it because I am sorry myself to tell you so, though I am changing to a business which has always had the strongest attractions for me.
I have never got over the "iron-fever," and when a place was offered me at Mt. Savage, though the pecuniary prospect was no better than at Burlington, the chance to become an iron-master was too good to be refused.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, p. 191
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Fillmore La Nov 25th 1860
Old Abe Lincoln
God damn your god damned of hellfire of god damned soul to hell god damn you and god damn your god damned family’s god damn hellfired god damned soul to hell and god damnation god damn them and god-damn your god damn friends to hell god damn their god damned souls to damnation god damn them and god damn their god damn families to eternal god damnation god damn souls to hell god damn them and God Almighty God damn Old Hamlin to go hell God damn his God damned soul God all over everywhere double damn his God damned soul to hell.
Now you God damned old abolition son of a bitch God damned you I want you to send me God damn you about one dozen good offices Good God almighty God damn your God damned soul and three or four pretty Gals God damn you you
And by doing God damn you
Pete Muggins
SOURCE: Hate Mail for Old Abe Lincoln, Adam Matthew Blog, posted August14, 2014, accessed August 1, 2020
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