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Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Edward Everett, 20 November 1863
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[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]
The day after his famous Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln wrote to Edward Everett, the day's featured speaker, to thank him for his praise of Lincoln's two-minute speech: "I am pleased to know that, in your judgment, the little I did say was not entirely a failure." Everett's speech, by comparison, lasted two hours.