Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. "This lecture is not included with any collection of Lincoln's addresses. It appeared in print for the first time in Sunset magazine, in 1909." (Prefatory note) Reproduced from the original ms. owned by Hon. Henry A. Melvin, of Oakland, Cal. The text of another different lecture on "Discoveries, inventions and improvements" is printed from a ms. owned by Charles F. Gunther, of Chicago, in Lincoln's Complete works, edited by Nicolay and Hay, 1894, v. 1, p. 522-528 "Of this book 250 copies were printed on Fabriano Italian hand-made paper, and 1000 copies on American drawing paper. The frontispiece is by Ray F. Coyle. Printed by the Blair-Murdock company, San Francisco, under the direction of John Henry Nash,in the month of October, 1915." In slide case