The Bixby Letter

[RJNorton]

Hopefully, I am not getting too technical here, but as far as I know, Hay never said anything about the letter until after the facsimiles appeared on the scene. So, when he told a few folks that he wrote the letter, did he merely mean he wrote it from Lincoln's dictation or copied it from Lincoln's draft? Or, on the other hand, did he mean he composed the letter totally by himself?