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The Bixby Letter
04-03-2013, 12:38 PM (This post was last modified: 04-03-2013 11:01 PM by wsanto.)
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Reading through some of these very well written arguments supporting the supposition that Hay was the author of the letter, I've noticed what I consider a contradiction.

Part of the argument is that Hay told Herndon that Lincoln gave the duty of writing letters in general to Hay and that was especially true during certain times when Lincoln was stressed with other duties. It goes on, from Herndon, that Lincoln would sign Hay's letters without reading them. If one is to believe this then one can assume that Hay wrote a large percentage of Lincoln's letters. Lincoln was a very busy man.

Another argument is that certain words and phrases (beguile) in the Bixby letter were never used by Lincoln in his other writings but that these same words and phrases were frequently used in Hay's writings.

Now if Hay wrote the Bixby letter in the course of his normal duties of writing a large percentage of Lincoln's correspondence why did he not use these same words and phrases in these other letters typically credited to Lincoln?
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