Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-04-18
Springfield, ILL.,, Feb. 10, 1912.

@ Springfield, ILL.,, Feb. 49, 1912.
Dear Speed-Yours of the 1st inst. came
to hand three or four days ago. When
this shall reach you you will have been
Fannys husband several days. You
know my desire to befriend you is ever
lasting. that I will never cease while I
know how to do anything.
But you will always hereafter be on
ground that I have never occupied, and
consequently if advice were needed I
might advise wrong. I do fondly hope
however. that you will never again need
any comfort from abroad. But, should
be mistaken in this, should excessive
pleasure still be accompanied with a pain
full counterpart at times, still let me urge
you, as I have ever done, to remember in
the depth and even agony of despond-
cncy that very shortly you are to feel
we'll again. I am now fully convinced
that you love her as ardently as you are
capable Of loving. Your ever being happy
In her presence and your intense anxiety
about her health. if there were nothing
else would place this beyond all dispute
in my mind. T incline to think 1t probable
that your nerves will fail you occasion
ally for awhile, but once you get them
firmly graded now that trouble is over
forever.
think if I were you. in case my mind
were not exactly right I would avoid
being idle. I would Immediately engage
in some business or go to making prep
arations for it, which would be the same
thing. If you went through the ceremony
calmly or even with sufficient composure
not to excite alarm in any present, you
are safe beyond question and In two or
three months, to say the most will be
the hapDiest of men. @ ~
would desire you to give my particular
respects to Fanny. but perhaps you will
not wish her to know you have received
this lest she should desire to see it. Make
her write me an answer to my last letter
to her; at any rate, would set great
value upon note or letter from her
Write me whenever you have leisure
Yours forever. A. LINCOLN. #
P. ST. have been quite a man since
you left. is i.4=$a
Springfield, Feb Is, 1S42. J.
Dear Speed-Yours of the 18th inst, an
bouncing that Miss Fanny and you are
mo more twain. but one fesh,'' reached
NE this morning. have no way Of tell
ing how much happiness wish you both,
though believe you both can conceive it.
7 feel somewhat Jealous Of both Of you
3now-you will be SO exclusively concerned
for one another that shall be forgotten
entirely. MY acquaintance with Miss
Fanny Il call her this lest you should
think am speaking Of your mother) was
too short for me to reasonably hope TO
long be remembered by her. and still
am sure shall not forget her soon. Try
( If you cannot remind her Of that debt
she owes me. and be sure you do not In
terfere to prevent her paying 1t.
& regret to learn thatsyou have resolved
to not return to Illinois. shall be very
lonesome without you. How miserable
things seem to be arranged in this world!
II we have no friends we have no pleas
ure, and. If we have them. we are sure
to lose them and be doubly panied by the
loss. did hope she and you would make
your home here. but own have no
right to insist. You owe obligations to
her ten thousand times more sacred than
you can owe to others. and In that light
let them be respected and observed. It Is
natural that she should desire to remain
i with her relatives and Il friends. AS te
friends. however. she could not need them