The inner life of Abraham Lincoln

Chapter 86: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

The author presents six months of close personal association with Abraham Lincoln, assembling fragmentary but factual daily observations, anecdotes, and corroborated contributions to sketch his private thoughts, habits, moods, and moral temperament during the wartime presidency. The narrative blends reminiscence, descriptive episodes, and reflections on emancipation, leadership, and character, emphasizing humility, integrity, and intellectual growth while avoiding hagiography, and aiming to illuminate the private motives and inner struggles behind public decisions.

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Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of the pages that referenced them, have been collected, sequentially renumbered, and placed just before the Index.

In the HTML version, the Transcriber added a Table of Contents.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.