From the April 12, 2015, Chicago tribune "Lincoln's paper trail."
A letter from Abraham Lincoln to the Press and Tribune.
The original is in the Robert R. McCormick Museum at Cantigny. Robert McCormick owned the Tribune.
Springfield, June 15, 1859
Press & Tribune Co.
Gentlemen.
Herewith a draft to pay for your Daily another year from today. I suppose I shall take The Press & Tribune as long as it and I both live, unless I become unable to pay for it.
In its devotion to our cause always, and to me personally last year, i owe a debt of gratitude, which I fear I shall never be able to pay.
Yours very truly
A. Lincoln
I wonder if the paper boy delivered it?
A Piece of History. --Old Secesh Paper
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