Edward Everett to Abraham Lincoln, November 20, 1863, Washington, D.C.

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    Edward Everett to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, November 20, 1863 (Lincoln's remarks at Gettysburg), Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html.
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    Transcribed by the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
    Adapted by John Osborne, Dickinson College
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    The following transcript has been adapted from the Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress.
    225 H Street [November 20] 1863.
     
    My dear Sir,
     
    Not wishing to intrude upon your privacy, when you must be much engaged, I beg leave, in this way, to thank you very sincerely for your great thoughtfulness for my daughter's accommodation on the Platform yesterday, & much kindness otherwise to me & mine at Gettysburg.
     
    Permit me also to express my great admiration of the thoughts expressed by you, with such eloquent simplicity & appropriateness, at the consecration of the Cemetery. I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes. My son who parted from me at Baltimore & my daughter, concur in this sentiment.
     
    I remain, dear Sir, most respectfully Yours,
     
    Edward Everett.
     
    I hope your anxiety for your child was relieved on your arrival.
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