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Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln

Scovel, James M. "Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. 01 Aug. 1889: 244-251.
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Type: 
magazine
Genre: 
biography
Abstract: 

This short biographical sketch of Lincoln includes an anecdote of the president reading a few lines of a poem taken from his pocket, attributing the poem to William North, when it was in fact by Fitz-James O'Brien.

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North, William [pages:245]

Recounts Lincoln "taking from his pocket a poem of a forgotten English writer, William North by name." However, the lines quoted are from Fitz-James O'Brien's ode Kane.

O'Brien, Fitz-James [pages:245]

Quotes a few lines from O'Brien's ode Kane, attributed them to William North.

MENTIONED IN - Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln

North, William

Characterized as an "eccentric literary man not without a spice of genius," William North was born in England and eventually settled in New York City (W. Rossetti 48-49).

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