Ah, so THIS is why Mayor George Shinn kept getting interrupted when he tried to reprise Lincoln’s words in the 1912 setting of The Music Man. A lot of hot air!
Lincoln wrote the 1st and only draft of the Address he gave at Gettysburg on the back of an envelope, on the train, from Washington to the Pennsylvania battle site. A short speech but a long war. We are still engaged in the great battle to see whether our nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are equal, shall long endure.
It’s only 10, mostly very short, sentences, all of which, as Ha-Shomer said, fit on a single envelope. I have no doubt Mr. Lincoln knew it backwards and forwards. Unlike people of today they knew how to memorize things back then.
The good thing about the Internet is that you can actually read what happened that day and even what the weather was like. “The weather was most pleasant, a rare Indian Summer day” even though it was mid-November. Windy is not something that is associated with an “Indian Summer day”. Lincoln may have written the speech on an envelope but he had transribed it onto two pieces of paper, expanding it from a first draft of 239 words to 269 words. Although he held the two pieces of paper as he gave the speech, it was reported that he never looked at those pages as he spoke. The speech lasted all of two minutes.
Lord Flatulence Premium Member over 1 year ago
He doesn’t need notes. He’s Abraham Lincoln!
snsurone76 over 1 year ago
Lincoln’s beard covered more of his chin than is depicted here.
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray over 1 year ago
Four scones and seven beers ago…
iggyman over 1 year ago
Looks like the kids are going to be involved in the speech!
Liam Astle Premium Member over 1 year ago
Quick give Lincoln the Nixon Resignation Speech.
BlitzMcD over 1 year ago
Ah, so THIS is why Mayor George Shinn kept getting interrupted when he tried to reprise Lincoln’s words in the 1912 setting of The Music Man. A lot of hot air!
Darryl Heine over 1 year ago
Hope they save the script of Lincoln’s!
Kidon Ha-Shomer over 1 year ago
Lincoln wrote the 1st and only draft of the Address he gave at Gettysburg on the back of an envelope, on the train, from Washington to the Pennsylvania battle site. A short speech but a long war. We are still engaged in the great battle to see whether our nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are equal, shall long endure.
Durak Premium Member over 1 year ago
It’s only 10, mostly very short, sentences, all of which, as Ha-Shomer said, fit on a single envelope. I have no doubt Mr. Lincoln knew it backwards and forwards. Unlike people of today they knew how to memorize things back then.
tcayer over 1 year ago
I thought it was written on the back of an envelope.
Uncle $crooge over 1 year ago
The good thing about the Internet is that you can actually read what happened that day and even what the weather was like. “The weather was most pleasant, a rare Indian Summer day” even though it was mid-November. Windy is not something that is associated with an “Indian Summer day”. Lincoln may have written the speech on an envelope but he had transribed it onto two pieces of paper, expanding it from a first draft of 239 words to 269 words. Although he held the two pieces of paper as he gave the speech, it was reported that he never looked at those pages as he spoke. The speech lasted all of two minutes.