[i-15] Irelan, xvi, 26-27, 41; Lamon, 32; Leland, 20; Jones, 4; Hapgood, 8; Janes, 7; E. I. Lewis in St. Louis _Globe-Democrat_, February 12, 1899.
[i-16] Brooks, 28; Short Autobiography, in _Works_, vi, 27.
[i-17] Danville (Ill.) _News_, February 12, 1904.
[i-18] Probably Webster’s _American Spelling Book_, Dilworth’s _Spelling Book_, Pike’s _Arithmetic_, Murray’s _English Reader_, Scott’s _Lessons in Elocution_, and the _Kentucky Preceptor_. Lincoln studied Kirkham’s _Grammar_ after he left home. See Dodge, 4-6; Sumner, ix, 375; Scripps, 3; Herndon, i, 34, 44-45, note, 75-76; Lamon, 37, note, 50; Hitchcock, 87; Atkinson, 18; Leland, 22; Browne, 70, 96; Brooks, 54; Morse, i, 19; Holland, 46; Tarbell’s _Early Life_, 124-25, 132; Tarbell, i, 66-67; Nicolay and Hay, i, 84; Nicolay, 25-26; Nicolay’s _Boy’s Life_, 36-37; Ketcham, 66; Howells, 29-30; Irelan, xvi, 96-97; Stoddard, 70; Browne’s _Lincoln and Men_, i, 158-59; Jones, 8.
[i-19] Scripps, 3; Speed, 38; Herndon, i, 36; Lamon, 37, 57 note; Tarbell, i, 29-34; Binns, 18-19; Atkinson, 23-27; Selby, 45; Stowe, 15; Nicolay and Hay, i, 35; Oldroyd, 33-34; McClure’s _Stories_, 22-23; Schurz’s _Essay_, 4-5; Chittenden, 433-34; Nicolay, 14; Nicolay’s _Boy’s Life_, 23; Morse, i, 13; Swett’s _Reminiscences_, in Rice, 459; Raymond, 22; Hobson, 30-31; Barrett (New), i, 23-24; Arnold, 21; Brooks, 23-24, 29-30; Browne, 66-68; Holland, 31; Morgan, 19-21; Whitney’s _Life_, i, 41-42; Tarbell’s _Early Life_, 69-71; French, 24-25; Hitchcock, 87-88; Leland, 22; Stoddard, 32-33, 36-37, 43; Sumner, ix, 375; Curtis’s _Lincoln_, 56-58; Beach, 8-9; H. W. Mabie, in the _Chautauquan_, April, 1900, pp. 33-34, and in the _Outlook_, February 20, 1904, pp. 454-55. See also _infra_, p. 331.
[i-20] According to most of our authorities this was the book by Mason L. Weems, entitled _The Life of George Washington; with curious anecdotes, equally honourable to himself and exemplary to his young countrymen_. But Scripps (3), Raymond (21-22), Brockett (47), and Holland (32) are apparently accurate in stating that the work was Dr. David Ramsay’s _The Life of Washington_. It should be remembered that Mr. Lincoln himself, looking with uncommon care through the advance sheets of Scripps’s biography, published in 1860, made no correction as to the name Ramsay there employed in connection with the anecdote. Lincoln’s reference to Weems’s _Life_, moreover, in the speech at Trenton (_Works_, vi, 150-51), indicates that he had read that book during his early childhood--some years before he could as a “tall and long-armed” youth have “made a clean sweep” of Crawford’s fodder-corn.