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The Bixby Letter
07-28-2017, 06:15 PM (This post was last modified: 07-29-2017 04:40 AM by Eva Elisabeth.)
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RE: The Bixby Letter
Mrs. Bixby's case possibly was one of several similar ones (that remained unpublished). At all there were so many letters more than we know of. If it wasn't to expect the letter would be published (no publicity importance) it was possibly even a typical secretary job to reply to.
I just mean to say it wouldn't be unusual a presidential secretary would take care of such. Also the Lincoln Log doesn't know of all going on in Lincoln's life on that day of possibly more importance, keeping him and his mind busy. Who knows. (As for Danny McCullough and the Ellsworths - he could hardly have had Hay write their letters.)

"President Lincoln received from two to three hundred letters each day, and Stoddard testified that some of them went into the two huge wicker wastebaskets which flanked the sorting table...Hay guessed that Lincoln read only one letter in fifty; Nicolay estimated only one in a hundred. In answering his mail, the harried President rarely dictated, but instead made short endorsements suggesting appropriate replies. Important letters he answered himself in longhand, often doggedly spelling out the copy as well as the original. Since the White House office was unscreened, bugs swarmed in on hot summer nights, and their embalmed bodies remain congealed on some of the most important documents of the war years."
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind.../7904/9521
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