Abraham Lincoln didn't make copies of the Gettysburg Address. The people who listened to the speech did. The only reason there are different versions is because Lincoln wasn't speaking clear enough for everyone to hear, and some people who published printed versions misinterpreted what he said.
Abraham Lincoln didn't make copies of the Gettysburg Address. The people who listened to the speech did. The only reason there are different versions is because Lincoln wasn't speaking clear enough for everyone to hear, and some people who published printed versions misinterpreted what he said.
I've been doing research on this topic and I know he definitely changed it numerous times.
there are five known copies of the Gettysburg Address
Of the five known manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address, the Library of Congress has two. President Lincoln gave one of these to each of his two private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay. The other three copies of the Address were written by Lincoln for charitable purposes well after November 19. The copy for Edward Everett, the orator who spoke at Gettysburg for two hours prior to Lincoln, is at the Illinois State Historical Library in Springfield; the Bancroft copy, requested by historian George Bancroft, is at Cornell University in New York; the Bliss copy was made for Colonel Alexander Bliss, Bancroft's stepson, and is now in the Lincoln Room of the White House. Source: http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/gettysburgaddress/Pages/default.aspx
People admire the Gettysburg Address because in two minutes President Lincoln was able to sooth a nation that was dying from the inside and turn the tide of a war. With only 272 words, he changed the view of the past into something people could embrace as a new beginning. The Gettysburg Address challenged the way people looked at life. The Gettysburg Address changed the view of the war from petty fights over sectionalism and state into a struggle for freedom and a struggle for democracy. It was a great thing that Abraham Lincoln did.
Some of the most famous declamation pieces include "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley, "If" by Rudyard Kipling, "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes, and "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. Other popular choices are "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas, "The Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln, and "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.
I have readthis in the given material that Gettysburg address was not entirely new.he was aware of Daniel webster's statement in 1830 that the origin of our government and the source of its power is "the people's constitution, the people's government; made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." Lincoln had read Supreme Court Justice John Marshall's opinion, which states: "The government of the Union . . . is emphatically and truly a government of the people. . . . Its powers are granted by them and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit." in a ringing anti-slavery address in Boston in 1858, Rev. Theodore Parker, the noted minister, defined democracy as "a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people." On a copy of this address in Lincoln's papers, this passage is encircled with pencil marks. But Lincoln did not merely repeat this theme; he transformed it into America's greatest patriotic utterance. With the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln gave meaning to the sacrifice of the dead-he gave inspiration to the living. All the above staeted were his out side sources from where he got his bacis idea about his speech.the idea was approximately same but he delivered a thought of sacrifing in a new manner with new words and emotions. Well his writhing process was not really short he prepared almost five copies of his address
The value of a copy of the letter to Mrs. Bixby, written by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, would depend on factors such as its authenticity, condition, and historical significance. Authentic copies of the letter have been sold for thousands of dollars at auction.
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One each in Salisbury Cathedral & Lincoln Cathedral. Two in the British Library.
Many public libraries have hard copies and microfiche version of city phone books - its a good place to start.
President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has ten sentences : "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us---that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion---that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain---that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom---and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
"Vos copies sont faites" (your copies are done) or "vos copies sont finies" (your copies are finished) or "vos copies sont prêtes" (your copies are ready).