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Lincoln said:
"I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable questions of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone."
-Lincoln After Losing 1858 Senate Race
A - Awes and impressed. The author calls the spider genius(Dickson 7) and and artist with an surpassing merit.
Unlike memos, letters include formal and informative writing. Letters also are comparatively long and have a message conveyed to the recipient.
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The answer that would convey yearning would be longing. It wouldn't be melancholy pretty much means sad.
Longing ex: She was longing for one of her grandmother's hugs.