I enclose an exact copy.Īddress delivered at the dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg. This is, undoubtedly, the final form he gave the Address, and is that by which he intended it should be judged. Every word is written with distinctness and care and there is no room for mistaking even a letter or a punctuation-point. Lincoln was asked, in April, 1864, to send to the Baltimore (Md) Fair for the relief of soldiers end sailors an autograph manuscript, he sent a copy of his Gettysburg Address, which, lithographed, is to be found on pages 3, 4, and 5 of ‘Autograph Leaves of our Country’s Authors’ (Baltimore : Cushings & Bailey. It is uncertain whether this manuscript has been preserved.īut when Mr. When delivered, they were read from an official letter-sheet. Sending for his host, he enquired the order of the exercises of the next day, and began to put in writing what be called some “stray thoughts’ to utter on the morrow. He was called out in the evening to reply to a serenade, and at a late hour went to his room. Lincoln arrived in Gettysburg in the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1863, and was a guest of one of our citizens-Judge Wills. SIR : In the Nation of August 20 is an enquiry for the manuscript of President Lincoln’s Address at Gettysburg.
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