Books that Lincoln read...

[RJNorton]

(03-23-2019 08:09 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Was it just my fancy or did he also read The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon? I think I read that he did so once-but not sure.

In a letter to Herndon (May 30, 1865), William G. Greene said he loaned 'Gibbons histories' to Lincoln. This would have been during the New Salem years.