Existing comment:
Why did Lincoln undertake his post-speech revision?
(1) The delivery text (the Nicolay)
(2) The spoken words, or rather, the best report of his spoken words (the reconstructed or original Associated Press report)
(3) Lincoln's revision that he wrote after the speech, when preparing his words for publication (the Hay-Everett), which became the basis for the last handwritten version, the "Gettysburg Address" |