Abraham Lincoln - The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln-VOL. V (Chap. 4.55) lyrics

To G. E. Patten Executive Mansion, March 19, 1861 TO MASTER GEO. EVANS PATTEN. WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:—I did see and talk with Master Geo. Evans Patten last May at Springfield, Ill. Respectfully, A. LINCOLN. [Written because of a denial that any interview with young Patten, then a schoolboy, had ever taken place.]