Harriet Beecher Stowe

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(04-26-2015 09:04 PM)LincolnToddFan Wrote:  Hi Laurie, no and this is the first I've even heard of a sequel. I read "Cabin" when I was about thirteen.

I stumbled upon it while looking for something else. I'll see if I can find the link again. I think it was part of a tumblr.com page on the holdings of Lincoln Financial??

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(04-27-2015 10:46 AM)L Verge Wrote:  

(04-26-2015 09:04 PM)LincolnToddFan Wrote:  Hi Laurie, no and this is the first I've even heard of a sequel. I read "Cabin" when I was about thirteen.

I stumbled upon it while looking for something else. I'll see if I can find the link again. I think it was part of a tumblr.com page on the holdings of Lincoln Financial??

Here's the text, but the photos of the original book covers would not transfer. lincolncollection.tumblr.com

Legend has it that when President Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in late 1862, he greeted her by saying, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” Although a meeting did take place, the greeting attributed to Lincoln is entirely apocryphal—an addition to Stowe and Lincoln lore that was not documented by either party and that did not appear in print until 1896.

It is clear, however, that Lincoln read Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin as well as A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe’s nonfiction response to her critics, which Lincoln borrowed from the Library of Congress on June 16, 1862. First editions of both books are held by the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection and can be read online.