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February 01, 1850

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Friday, February 1, 1850.
 Springfield, IL.

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In the morning, Edward Baker Lincoln, the second child of Abraham and Mary Lincoln, dies in Springfield. Edward, who had been ill for nearly two months, would have turned four years old on March 10. In a letter he wrote a few weeks later to his stepbrother John D. Johnston, Lincoln informed Johnston that "we lost our little boy...We miss him very much." Abraham Lincoln to John D. Johnston, 23 February 1850, CW, 2:76-77.

Poem, "Little Eddie," published in Illinois Journal February 7, 1850, may have been written by Lincoln. 

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         <p>In the morning, Edward Baker
  Lincoln, the second child of Abraham and Mary Lincoln, dies in Springfield.
  Edward, who had been ill for nearly two months, would have turned four years
  old on March 10. In a letter he wrote a few weeks later to his stepbrother John
  D. Johnston, Lincoln informed Johnston that "we lost our little boy...We miss
  him very much." <bibl default='NO'>
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  Lincoln to John D. Johnston</xref>, 23 February 1850,
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         <p> Poem,
  "Little Eddie," published in Illinois Journal February 7, 1850, may have been
  written by Lincoln. </p>
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