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Title: Biographies and stories of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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to whomLincoln signed his lettersYours forever—he ad-dressed notes to at leasthalf a dozen other peoplethat way. His book hasbeen called a hoax and afraud by his formercoauthor, who walkedoff the project. And formany scholars, the veryfact that Lincoln madeno attempt to hide his re-lationship—and evenspoke about it as presi-dent—confirms their suspicions ofTripps thesis. I simply cannot believethat, if the early relationship betweenJoshua Speed and Lincoln had been sex-ual, the president of the United Stateswould so freely and publicly speak of it,writes historian Donald. Whatever the root of Lincolns roman-tic struggles, his political career, too, ing with a replica of the presi-dents first home—yes, a tinylog cabin—on one side andthe facade of the White Houseon the other. Life-size tab-leaux show the young attor- ney reading a newspaper inhis office or courting MaryTodd. In one eerie scene, theLincolns enjoy a laugh atFords Theater as John WilkesBooth slips in behind them.
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All this schtick raises con-cern among some historians;one outspoken scholar saysthe Disney approach is sureto rob the stoiy of authentici-ty. People then question ifLincoln really did that or saidthat, says John Y. Simon, aLincoln expert at SouthernIllinois University-Carbon-dale. Theyve done childishthings in trying to make it amuseum for children. The museum is not withouthistoric artifacts: There is acopy of the Gettysburg Ad-dress in Lincolns own hand, aprint of the Emancipation The Abraham Lincoln Libraryand Museum in Springfield, III. Proclamation, the briefcaseLincoln used as president,and a jewelry case owned byMary. But BRC wants visitorsto do more than just shufflepast fading parchment. Wewant to engage them, sweepthem up in the subject, saysCEO Bob Rogers. And a bit of dissent seemsto sit fine with museum orga-nizers, who say the exhibitsstress that Lincoln was hardlybeloved in his time. Marblememorials are cold and pale,while Lincolns days were richin color and radical ch

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