Web watch: the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

24/02/2009

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln is an eight-volume set first published in 1953.� The set contains correspondence, speeches, and other of Lincoln’s writings, and these were transcribed and annotated over a number of years.� The Abraham Lincoln Association and the University of Michigan have **made them available online.� **

Whilst it may not be strictly relevant to a 21st century legal practice, hours can be spent browsing the works of a great lawyer, president and orator. The site is fully searchable and contains materials such as a first draft of the Gettysburg Address and an otherwise unremarkable "card of admission" [to the White House] for a Mr Ashmun and friend, signed by Mr Lincoln at 8.30 pm on 14 April 1865 on his way to the theatre where he was assassinated.

**24 February 2009 **