 | Abraham Lincoln - 1900 - 186 pages
...see it tried on him personally. (November 21, 1864, Letter to Mrs. Blxby— Van Buren, p. 392.) Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department...you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I 35 cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic... | |
 | 1900 - 308 pages
...can't spare that man : he fights !' I have been shown, in the files of the War Department, a statement that you are the mother of five sons who have died...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from your grief for a loss so overwhelming ; but I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation... | |
 | 1900 - 654 pages
...(England) university halls as a specimen of the purest English and the most elegant diction extant : "Dear Madam:— I have been shown in the files of the war...mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the battle field. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile... | |
 | Henry Ketcham - 1901 - 516 pages
...Mrs. Bixby, of Boston, Mass., the followinj letter which needs 110 comment or explanation : " DEAR MADAM : I have been shown, in the files of the War...you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 pages
...commanders. XXXVI LETTER OF CONDOLENCE TO MRS. BIXBY OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS November 21, 1864. Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the War...you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may 197 be found in the thanks of the Republic... | |
 | Joseph Hodges Choate - 1901 - 48 pages
...of the War Department a statement that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously 011 the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from your grief for a loss so overwhelming — but I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation... | |
 | 1901 - 714 pages
...university halls as a specimen of the purest English and the most elegant diction» extant : — "DEAR MADAM : — I have been shown in the files of the...of the adjutant-general of Massachusetts, that you were the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the battle field. I feel how weak and fruitless... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1909 - 488 pages
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 | 1918 - 314 pages
...joined the street beggars in DelmenhorsOldenburg, to get a living. World Democracy Linroln's Letter Dear Madam — I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on... | |
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DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words... 
