(04-14-2019, 04:57 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Congratulations, Laurie! Yes, the lines I posted are from a letter 10-year-old Willie Lincoln wrote to a friend in Springfield named Henry Remann. The letter was written on May 3, 1861. The Remanns lived down the block from the Lincolns.
SOURCE: Lincoln's Sons by Ruth Painter Randall.
There are certainly many folks today who could take lessons on penmanship and sentence structure from ten-year-old Willie. Since I am not a student of Lincoln in general, I don't believe I have ever seen samples of handwritings like this. Even quotes are usually in standard publishing fonts.