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92. A. H. Chapman to William H. Herndon.
Charleston Ills Sept 28th 1865
Dr Sir.
Yours dated the 26th containing 20 Dollars come to hand Last eve for which please accept my thanks. In answer to your enquiries I beg leave to state that Thos Lincoln never showed by his actions that he thought much of his son Abraham when a Boy. he treated him rather unkind than otherwise. always appeared to think much more of his stepson John D Johnston than he did of his own Son Abraham but after Abe was grown up and had made his Mark in the world the old man appeared to be very proud of him, Esq. Hall
Extract from Lincolns coppy Books.
Abraham Lincoln is my name
And with my pen I write the same
I will be a good Boy but God Knows when.
Enclosed is a Bond the Sufficiency of which I wish certified to by a Judge or District Attorney of a Dist Court of the US. will you please have it attended to for me & return it to me by first mail if possible. The securities are worth at Least 400.000 — the Least Worthy one of the 5 is worth at Least 40.000. Dollars. I enclose Letters from attays here to the Judge which I presume will be satisfactory to him or the Dist atty. I desighn Starting to Idaho about the 1st of Nov. This is a Bully place for Me & I can Make a heap of money out of it. Dick Yates Damn his Soul fought me at Washington & for another man.
Your Friend
A. H. Chapman.
[Postcript on verso:] It makes no Diference which certifies to the sufficiency of the Bond Treat or Weldon
Chapman
Library of Congress: Herndon-Weik Collection. Manuscript Division. Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. 2372 — 73; Huntington Library: LN2408, 1:285 — 87