"Lost" Speeches and Agrapha

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"Lost" Speeches and Agrapha

09-12-2015, 06:44 PM

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Rob Wick Offline

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RE: "Lost" Speeches and Agrapha

Matt,

The Collected Works that Roger references is online and allows the user to search in several different ways.

Also, Ida Tarbell wrote a fictionalized account of Lincoln's Lost Speech for the American Magazine called "Back There in '58."

She had been embarrassed after Henry Whitney claimed he had a copy of the speech which was verified by Chicago Tribune publisher Joseph Medill. However, many contemporaries dismissed Whitney's claims and subsequent historians agreed, proving Whitney's version to be a fraud.

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Rob

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