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Abraham Lincoln

About This Item

  • Title: Abraham Lincoln
  • Date: March 17, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.03399
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Ty Alyea Matt Cohen Nicole Gray Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt and Unknown. "Abraham Lincoln." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 20 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.03399.xml (TEI)

Key

Textual Feature Appearance
Whitman's hand blue double overline and underline
Highlighting yellow background with top and bottom border
Paste-on gray box with black borders
Laid in white box with black borders
Erasure white text with dark gray background
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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keep carefully

Lincoln's Picture

one of the latest taken before he was shot— th the most satisfactory picture of A. L. I have ever seen, (and I have seen hundreds of different ones)—looks just like I saw him last on the balcony at the National Hotel
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