Keywords: Abraham Lincoln letter Exeter New Hampshire.jpg en Letter from President Abraham Lincoln to his wife Mary Todd Lincoln written while LIncoln was visiting his son Robert who was then a student at Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter New Hampshire The Abraham Lincoln Papers General Correspondence Library of Congress Washington D C http //memory loc gov/cgi-bin/query/r ammem/mal field DOCID+ lit d4340100 http //memory loc gov/mss/mal/mal3/434/4340100/001 jpg Abraham Lincoln 1860-03-04 Full Text Exeter N H March 4 1860 Dear Wife When I wrote to you before I was just starting on a little speech making tour taking the boys with me On Thursday they went with me to Concord where I spoke in daylight and back to Manchester where I spoke at night Friday we came down to Lawrence the place of the Pemberton Mill tragedy where we remained four hours awaiting the train back to Exeter When it came we went upon it to Exeter where the boys got off and I went on to Dover and spoke there Friday evening Saturday I came back to Exeter reaching here about noon and finding the boys all right having caught up with their lessons Bob has a letter from you saying Willis and Teddy were very sick the Saturday night after I left Having no response from you and having one from Springfield of Wednesday from Mr Fitzhugh saying nothing about our family I think the dear little fellows are well again This is Sunday morning; and according to Bob's orders I am to go to Church once today Tomorrow I bid farewell to the boys go to Hartford Conn and speak there in the evening; Tuesday at Meriden; Wednesday at New Haven; and Thursday at Woonsocket R I Then I start home and think I will not stop I may be delayed in New York City an hour or two I have been unable to escape this toil If I had foreseen it I think I would not have come East at all The speech at New York being within my calculations before I started went off passably well and gave me no trouble whatever PD-old Abraham Lincoln Robert Todd Lincoln Phillips Exeter Academy Tad Lincoln Manuscript letters written messages |