Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-04-18
SDrinCfel5. ILL.,. Feb. IL. 1870

Springfield. ILL.,. Feb IL, 1912.
Dear Spood-Yours of the 1st inst. came
to hand three or four days ago. When
this shall reach Won you will have been
Tnnnv's husband several days. You
know my desire to befriend YOU is ever
LASTING. that | will never cease while 7
know how to do anything
But YOU Will always hereafter be on
ground that I have never occupied and
consequently if advice We're needed I
might advise wrong. I do fondly hope.
however. that YOU will never again need
any comfort from abroad. But should I
be mistaken in this. should excessive
pleasure still he 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-
oncy that very shortly YOU are to feel
well again. I am now fully convinced
that you love her as ardently as you are
canoble 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. 7 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.
I think if I were you, in case my mind
were not exactly right. I would avoid
DHlNo lule. L WOu!u l1Q1leQldLclV engage
in some business or go to making prep
aratjons for it, which would be the same
thing. If you went through the ceremony
calmly or even With sufficient conposure
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 hapoiest of men.
I would desire you to give my particular
respects to Fanny, but perhaps you will
not ic1, to Iox,
this lest she should desire to see it. Make
her write me an answer to my last letter
to her: at any rate. I would set great
value upon a note or letter from her.
Write me whenever you have leisure.
Yours forever. A. LINCOLN.
P. 81 have been quite a man since
you left.
Springfield, Feb. g. 1912.
Dear Speed-Yours Of the 18th inst, an.
bouncing that Miss Fanny and you are
mo more twain. but one flesh," reached
me this morning. I have no way of tell.
ing how much happiness wish you both
though believe you both can conceive it
feel somewhat jealous Of both of you
now-you will be SO exclusively concerned
for one another that I shall be forgotten
| entirely. My acquaintance with Miss
Fanny Il call her this lest you SHOULD
think I am speaking Of your mother) wa:
too short for me to reasonably hope tt
long be remembered by her. and still
| am sure shall not forget her soon. Try
If you cannot remind her of that deb
she owes me, and be sure you do not In
| terfere to prevent her paying 1t.
I regret to learn that, you have resolved
! to not return to Illinois. shall be very
| lonesome without you. How miserable
| things seem to be arranged in this world
If we have no friends. we have no pleas
ure, and. If we have them, we are SUR
| to lose them and be doub1y panied by tn,
| loss. did hope she and you would max,
| your home here. but own I have n,
right to insist. You owe obligations t,
her ten thousand times more sacred thar
you can owe to others, and in that ligh
let them be respected and observed. It i
| natural that she should desire to remai1
with her relatives and friends AS t
friends. however. she could not need then