LINCOLN'S COOPER INSTITUTE SPEECH [Sidenote] Lincoln to McNeill, April 6, 1860.

Lamon, "Life of Lincoln," p.

441.
[Sidenote] Jas.

A.Briggs to Lincoln, November 1, 1859.MS.Jas.

A.
Briggs in New York "Evening Post," August 16, 1867.
Among the many invitations to deliver addresses which Lincoln received in the fall of 1859, was one from a committee asking him to lecture in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, in a course then in progress there, designed for popular entertainment.