The Bixby Letter

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(04-02-2013 03:53 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Gary, I could not find the entire letter from Hay to Chandler, but here is an expansion on what Hay wrote Chandler regarding the Bixby letter:

The letter of Mr. Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby is genuine, is printed in our edition of his Works, and has been frequently re-published; but the engraved copy of Mr. Lincoln's alleged manuscript, which is extensively sold, is, in my opinion, a very ingenious forgery.

I admit, I want for Lincoln to have written the letter and that quote from Hay does it for me.

Hay is either lying about Lincoln being the author of the letter (A letter that Hay included in his collection of Lincoln's works) or Lincoln did indeed write the letter. I am now further convinced of the latter.

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I wonder if Schouler mentions the Bixby family and Lincoln's letter in his two volume "History of Massachusetts in the Civil War."

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