Comment on 11 year old girl telling Abraham Lincoln to grow beard so more people will vote for him (it actually worked)

robocall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A letter sent on October 15, 1860 from 11-year-old Grace Bedell to Lincoln:

  Hon A B [sic] Lincoln…

  Dear Sir My father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr. Hamlin’s. I am a little girl only 11 years old, but want you should be President of the United States very much so I hope you wont think me very bold to write to such a great man as you are. Have you any little girls about as large as I am if so give them my love and tell her to write to me if you cannot answer this letter. I have yet got four brothers and part of them will vote for you any way and if you let your whiskers grow I will try and get the rest of them to vote for you you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President. My father is going to vote for you and if I was a man I would vote for you to [sic] but I will try to get every one to vote for you that I can I think that rail fence around your picture makes it look very pretty I have got a little baby sister she is nine weeks old and is just as cunning as can be. When you direct your letter direct to Grace Bedell Westfield Chautauqua County New York. I must not write any more answer this letter right off Good bye

  Grace Bedell

  You can read more on her Wiki page, including about Lincoln’s reply and visiting her when he passed through her home town.

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    your face is so thin

    A pic from the OP on Reddit proves that she was correct:

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• funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  An 11 year old girl told Abraham Lincoln to grow a beard so more people would vote for him (it actually worked)

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  • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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