One memorable document runs to 53 handwritten pages that Lincoln himself laboriously writes out by hand. After all, there were no secretaries, there were no copying machines, there were no fax machines - everything done by hand. And the amount of work that Lincoln went through is just almost unbelievable. We can, for the first time, see the whole pattern of that career. They've collected not merely what Lincoln has to say, but what his opposing lawyers had to say, what the judges' rulings were, what the jury decisions were, what the fees. They searched the county courthouses all over Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, other places as well. They've collected papers on every case in which Abraham Lincoln was ever involved. The Lincoln legal papers have been under way in Springfield now for about seven years, something like that. We, for the first time, are able really to document and show this.
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