L~N COLN LORE Bulletin of the National Life Foundation ------Dr. Louis A. Warren, Editor Published each week by The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana Number 457 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA January 10, 1937

FACTS FROM LINCOLN'S OWN WRITINGS AND SPEECHES Lincoln Lore is rnpidly becoming a Early Correspondence 446 valuable reference library on nearly Indexes 73, 76, 77, 81, 85, 88, 100, DR. WARREN'S ANNUAL all of the subjects relating to Lincoln­ 101, 108, 111, 176 SPEAKING ITINERARY Last 444 iana. This is especially true as far as Volume 281 Lincoln's personal history js concerned For 1938 because so much of the subject matter Correspondence-Personal u~ed, depends on Lincoln's own state­ During the first three or !our Grace Bedell 98 ment." gleaned from his writings and months of each year the editor of Lincoln Lore is busily en­ Widow !Jixby 185 speeches. After all, the Abraham Lin­ galled in fulfilling an oxtensive Mrs. Drowning 201 coln which we observe through his senes of speaking engagements Family 148 own words is the historical Lincoln. which often cause him to travel John D. Johnston 311 When one considers that the writings from coast to coast. Last year Joshua Speed 46 and speeches of. Lincoln are greater in most of his appointments were Debates volume than the complete works of in the eastern states while this Alton 236 Shakespeare, it reveals what a large year the most o! his time will be Charleston 232 mass of source material is availabfc spent in the far west. Freeport 229 for study. It is always a pleasure for the Galesburg 234 G