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Gibson W. Harris
12-28-2017, 08:23 PM
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(12-28-2017 02:57 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Many thanks to Scott for sending a .pdf file of the Gibson W. Harris' articles in the Woman's Home Companion (1903-1904). Harris was a young law clerk in the Lincoln-Herndon office 1845-1847.

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I found the articles fascinating. Here are just a few of Harris' recollections and observations that I thought were interesting:

"Mr. Lincoln's mind was logical to the last degree, but his heart was more a woman's than a man’s." ....

Thanks, Roger. That quote reminds me of another description I've read of Lincoln: He had the mind of a scientist but the heart of a poet.

I don't remember where I read that. Does it sound familiar to anybody else?

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it. (Letter to James H. Hackett, November 2, 1863)
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Gibson W. Harris - RJNorton - 12-28-2017, 02:57 PM
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RE: Gibson W. Harris - RJNorton - 12-29-2017, 07:30 AM
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