Lincoln had asked for me and not for him. He was a little afraid of big men, and he was also somewhat annoyed that Mr. The doctor, on the other hand, considered this visit of so prominent a politician a great affair. Lincoln, but I had heard a great deal of him and did not believe he would be bothered much by a little ink and light clothing. “The doctor was not at all satisfied, but I was aware of a chuckle in the room below. I’ll wash my hands, but I won’t roll down my sleeves.’ “I could well believe that I was not exactly presentable, but I had not quite recovered from my annoyance over the pied type. Why, Stoddard, you are looking like the devil!’ “My reply to the doctor reflected my state of mind, but he insisted, ‘Come right down! But fix up a little. The doctor who owned the paper interrupted Stoddard’s work to say: “Stoddard, Old Abe is here, and he wants to see you!” Lincoln when he was the young editor of the Citizen Gazette in Champaign Illinois. Stoddard left more than one account of how he met Mr. Lincoln and he became a professional writer after Mr. Stoddard was a professional journalist when he met Mr. Lincoln over the five decades after President Lincoln’s death.
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