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Note from page 506: 1. Speech and writing were prominent topics in the second version of Lincoln's public lecture, "Discoveries and Inventions." See CW 3:356 — 63.

Note from page 509: 2. Congressman Tristam Burges of Rhode Island did assail John Randolph in the House of Representatives in 1831, but Randolph was not serving in the House at the time.