The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 2: Drawn From Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters, and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished and Illustrated; With Many Reproductions From Original Painti - Hardcover

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9780260907479: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 2: Drawn From Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters, and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished and Illustrated; With Many Reproductions From Original Painti

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ISBN 10: 0260907472 ISBN 13: 9780260907479

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The larger number of members lived in messes, a species of boarding-club, over which the owner of the house occupied usually presided. The National Intelligencer of the day is sprinkled with announcements of persons prepared to ac commodate a mess of members. Lincoln went to live in one of the best known of these clubs, Mrs. Spriggs's, in Duff Green's Row, on Capitol Hill. This famous row has now entirely disappeared, the ground on which it stood being oc cupied by the Congressional Library.

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