Elizabeth Kirkbride Gurney's Correspondence with Abraham Lincoln: The Quaker Dilemma.

The article considers how the correspondence between U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Quaker activist Eliza Gurney, born Elizabeth Paul Kirkbride, portrays the political, social, and religious position of the Religious Society of Friends towards slavery and the U.S. Civil War as well as Lincoln's opinions regarding God, religion, and the Quakers. Gurney met Lincoln with three other Quakers at the White House in October 1862 as part of an envoy of spiritual support and comfort. The article also presents both a facsimile and transcript of Lincoln's September 4, 1864 letter written to Eliza P. Gurney.