'That book!' said Herndon, looking up from his writing and taking it out of my hand.

'Oh, yes; he read it often.

It is the office copy.'" Lincoln was so fond of the book that he kept it ready to his hand.
Mr.John T.Stuart, Lincoln's first law-partner, says of him that his accounts were correctly kept, but in a manner peculiar to himself.

Soon after their law-partnership was formed, Mr.Stuart was elected to Congress, thereafter spending much of his time in Washington.

Lincoln conducted the business of the firm in his absence.