Wilson, Douglas L., ed.; Davis, Rodney O., ed.; Mather, Thomas. 'Thomas Mather (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 709: 1. JWW wrote in The Real Lincoln: "I knew General Mather well, and when I was in Springfield often heard him relate the incidents of his trip to Washington [in 1861]" (1922:304). The account given there (304-6) conveys the same anecdote but in entirely different words. As no original has been found, the text given here is from H&W (1889) as being closer to the time of JWW's interviews with Mather in the 1880s.