Wilson, Douglas L., ed.; Davis, Rodney O., ed.; Speed, Joshua F. 'Joshua F. Speed (William H. Herndon 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 31: 1. This document may have been written at the same time as the previous item and may, indeed, belong to it. On similar paper and also in pencil, it was docketed separately and given the number 3.

Note from page 31: 2. Refers to Lincoln's near duel with James Shields in September 1842.

Note from page 32: 3. WHH first wrote "Nov or Dec 1860" but later substituted "Jany or Feby."

Note from page 32: 4. For Speed's retelling of this incident, see §§370, 473.