Note v-65 — Chapter V · HONESTY IN POLITICS (continued 2)
Reading edition
Lincoln to Hardin, January 19, 1845, Works, i, 271-74. This letter is also printed in the Lapsley Edition of the Works, ii, 5-8, as of 1845. But the date evidently should be 1846. See also Lincoln to B. F. James, January 16, 1846, Works, i, 285-86.