{"id":95412,"date":"2020-07-17T12:46:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=95412"},"modified":"2020-07-24T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:45:04","slug":"john-l-scripps-to-abraham-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/john-l-scripps-to-abraham-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"John L. Scripps to Abraham Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"
Chicago, July 17th 1860<\/div>\n
My Dear Sir,
\nI send you by this day’s mail a copy of the Campaign Biography.
\nYou understand some of the difficulties under which it has been prepared. First, I labored two weeks after my return from Springfield upon the plan of making a pamphlet of 96 pages. Then Medill made the arrangement in New York for a pamphlet of 32 pages — and the Tribune people would consent to no delay. My only resource then was to condense here and omit there, instead of writing it over as I wished upon the plan of making a pamphlet of 32 pages. After I got to New York I had the printers estimate how much of my manuscript, with the accompanying extracts, it would require to make the 32 pages. I furnished the precise amount. As fast as the the pages were set up it was<\/span> they were stereotyped. When the whole was in type, it was found we had 35 pages, and Greeley & Co, insisted upon having the 32nd page reserved for their advertisment. I then had to take out<\/span> cut down four pages, and there were only about eight pages remaining to be stereotyped. I did the best I could, but you will see that both the account of your debates with Douglass [Douglas] as well as the conclusion, are sadly botched. There was no help for it. I have also reason to feel a little hard at some of my Springfield friends. Before I left there, I had the promise from some there of certain material which they could easily have furnished. I was to have it without delay. After waiting a week, I wrote. My letters have not yet been answered. However, I will not complain.
\nI believe the biography contains nothing that I was not fully authorized to put into it. In speaking of the books you read in early life, I took the liberty of adding Plutarch’s Lives. I take it for granted that you had read that book. If you have not, then you must read it at once to make my statement good. I cannot expect that you will be greatly pleased with the performance. It fails very much of pleasing me, and of course I cannot hope any one will have a higher opinion of my own offspring than myself. But while I do not anti<\/span> expect it to excite any positive gratification on your part, I shall be much pleased to know that there is nothing in it that is positively painful to you. More than this I cannot expect.
\nVery Truly Yours<\/div>\n
J. L. Scripps<\/div>\n
\n

John Locke Scripps (27 February 1818 \u2013 21 September 1866) was an attorney, journalist, and author. He wrote the first published biography of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 — this is what he is referring to in the letter. He was the first cousin once removed of E.W. Scripps, the founder of E. W. Scripps Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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