Wilson, Douglas L., ed.; Davis, Rodney O., ed.; Hanks, Dennis F. 'Dennis F. Hanks to William H. Herndon' in 'Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln' . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. [format: book], [genre: letter]. Permission: University of Illinois Press
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May the 4th 66

Friend William I Received your Leter

Plese answer

1st No Indians there when I first went to Indiana I Say No Nun

2d I Say this Bar Deer Turkyes and Coon wilecats and other things and frogs

3d frute trees

plum Crabaples Black Haws Red Haws &c and grapes Both fall and winter grapes Dog wood and Shoemake Berys

what Kind of wild fruit

This I have Named a Bove

what Kind of flowers

Swomp Lilly Sentury and Sweet William and wild Roses and and Camamile or Basal

those State Ments is Rite.

W — M — ^[1] Brian Lives Close to Me his farthers Name was Larsan He gives his Love to you

Now Billy if I Have Mist any thing let Me No

yours as yousal
D. F. Hanks

Library of Congress: Herndon-Weik Collection. Manuscript Division. Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. 2571; Huntington Library: LN2408, 1:274 — 75

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