Wilson, Douglas L., ed.; Davis, Rodney O., ed.; Bradford, John S. 'John S. Bradford (Jesse W. Weik Interview)' in 'Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln' . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. [format: book], [genre: interview]. Permission: University of Illinois Press
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Note from page 729: 1. This incident is told in abbreviated form in H&W (1889), 424n. In The Real Lincoln, JWW prefaces this quotation as follows: "John S. Bradford, at one time State Printer, told me this incident in his office in Springfield and I made a note of it at the time" (99).