Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Catalog of the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, in the Library of Congress Facsimile of newspaper clippings of Lincoln's speeches on the subject of Negro equality, pasted by him in a small pocket memorandum book, with manuscript notes and a letter to J. N. Brown, dated October 18, 1858. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.