Existing comment:
The "Battlefield Draft"
The "Nicolay Copy"
The "Delivery Text"
"When delivered, they were read from an official letter-sheet."
-- Edward McPherson (Nation, 1875)
Lincoln read from letter sheet, "the printed or engraved heading, in German text, "Executive Mansion," and blank space for date, being distinctly observed."
-- Professor Daniel Slade, aka "Medicus" (MY Times, 1882) |