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Title: Abraham Lincoln's secretaries
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Nicolay, Helen, 1866-1954 Nicolay, Helen, 1866-1954
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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ed at the news of yourimprovement. I overhear conversations about you onthe street almost every time I go into town. Some ofthem pretend great intimacy. Others are frankly specu-lative. All are kindly. This morning one woman re-marked to another that she hoped youd come back soon — you were such a nice man to have aroundPlease give my best love to Mrs. Hay — and come back — not too soon — much as we like to have you around Sincerely yoursHelen* N. These last two letters may have ended the correspond-ence between Colonel Hay and Miss Nicolay. The Haysreturned to the United States on June 15th and the ailingSecretary of State went directly to the State Depart-ment. On June 24th Hay went to his summer home. TheFells, at Newbury, on Lake Sunapee. New Hampshire.After his arrival in New Hampshire, his physical condi-tion grew alarmingly worse, and he died about threeoclock in the morning of July 1. 1905. He was buried inthe Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland. Ohio.(Continued on page 4)
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Number 1550 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA April, 1967 Lincoln Newspaper Clippings Editors Note: The most exhaustive source of information about Abra-ham Lincoln in the Foundations Library-Museum collection is thenewspaper clipping files which utilize some fifty odd steel filing draw-ers. The clippings have been mounted and filed under approximately3,000 different Lincoln subjects. It is reasonable to suppose that ina collection so voluminous, there would be a few clippings which wouldhave considerable historical significance. Some of these are featuredin this issue of Lincoln J^re. R.G.M.Newspaper Clippings Which Lincoln Read President Abraham Lincolns close association with theRev. Phineas D. Gurley, D.D., the pastor of The NewYork Avenue Presbyterian Church, is well known. TheLincoln family attended the regular services of Dr. Gur-leys church, occupying pew number 14. Then, too, thereis considerable evidence that Lincoln and Gurley oftenvisited together, held conferences and discussed religio

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