Excerpt from Tributes to Abraham Lincoln: Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources Providing Testimonials Lauding the 16th President of the United States; Surnames and Entities Beginning With I The office desk 011 which Mr. Lincoln wrote his first inaugural message is to be seen in the Leland Hotel in Springfield, while only three blocks distant from that hotel is the residence occupied by Mr. Lincoln at the time of his election. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.