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Wilson: In 1865, Lincoln's law partner, William H. Herndon, decided he would write something about Lincoln -- something subjective and personal, the "inner life," he called it. His first impulse was to go and talk to people who had known Lincoln before he knew him, which would be roughly before 1840.

So he established contacts in Kentucky and Indiana, where Lincoln had grown up, and he had lots of friends in the New Salem, Illinois, area where Lincoln had spent six years. So he went and interviewed these people and corresponded with them.

He collected, over the course of a couple of years, a very substantial archive of interviews.

He actually went to Indiana and interviewed and later corresponded with people who had known Lincoln, so he ended up with a large collection of materials.

Davis: After that, he became diverted from the book.

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His father died and left him some property. He became interested in managing that property, becoming something of a gentleman farmer. He further