-------- Original Message --------
|
Subject:
|
[Nabokov-l] Abraham Milton and the
Gettysburg Address |
|
Date:
|
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:13:01 -0300 |
|
From:
|
Jansy <jansy@aetern.us> |
|
To:
|
If
Nabokov
translated Abraham Lincoln's "The Gettysburg Address" into Russian,
there might be a reason for his having introduced, in ADA a certain
Abraham
Milton, through his private secretary (and biographer) John Milton Hay.
It
would be interesting to know what copy was the one used by Nabokov for
his
translation.
Here
is
some information about the issue
The
five manuscripts
Wikisource has original
text related to this
article:
The five known
manuscript
copies of the Gettysburg Address are each named for the associated
person who
received it from Lincoln. Lincoln gave a copy to each of his private
secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay.[13]
Both of these drafts
were written around the time of his November 19 address, while the
other three
copies of the address, the Everett, Bancroft, and Bliss copies, were
written by
Lincoln for charitable purposes well after November 19.[39][40]
In part because
Lincoln provided a title and signed and dated the Bliss Copy, it has
become the
standard text of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.[41]
Image File history File links Wikisource-logo. ... The
original Wikisource logo. ... John George
Nicolay
(1832–1901) was an American (German-born) biographer. ...
John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838
– July 1, 1905) was an
American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary
and
assistant to Abraham Lincoln. ...
The two earliest drafts of the Address are associated with some
confusion and
controversy regarding their existence and provenance. Nicolay and Hay
were
appointed custodians of Lincoln's papers by Lincoln's son Robert Todd Lincoln in
1874.[13]
After appearing in facsimile in an article
written by John
Nicolay in 1894, the Nicolay copy was presumably among the papers
passed to Hay
by Nicolay's daughter Helen upon Nicolay's death in 1901. Robert
Lincoln began
a search for the original copy in 1908, which resulted in the discovery
of a
handwritten copy of the Gettysburg Address among the bound papers of
John
Hayâ€â€a copy now known as the "Hay Draft."[13]
Robert Todd Lincoln (August 1, 1843 – July 26, 1926)
was the first son
of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Ann Todd. ... Insert
non-formatted text here For the machine that sends, receives, and
produces
facsimiles, see fax. ...
The Hay Draft differed from the version of the Gettysburg Address
published by
John Nicolay in 1894 in a number of significant ways: it was written on
a
different type of paper, had a different number of words per line and
number of
lines, and contained editorial revisions in Lincoln's hand.[13]
Both the Hay and Nicolay copies of the Address are within the Library
of
Congress, encased in specially-designed, temperature-controlled, sealed
containers with argon gas in order to
protect the documents
from oxidation and continued degeneration.[42]
General Name, symbol, number argon, Ar, 18 Chemical series noble gases
Group,
period, block 18, 3, p Appearance colorless Standard atomic weight 39.
...
Nicolay
Copy
The Nicolay Copy[43]
is often called the
"first draft" because it is believed to be the earliest copy that
exists. Scholars disagree over whether the Nicolay copy was actually
the
reading copy Lincoln held at Gettysburg on November 19. In an 1894
article that
included a facsimile of this copy, Nicolay, who had become the
custodian of
Lincoln's papers, wrote that Lincoln had brought to Gettysburg the
first part
of the speech written in ink on Executive Mansion
stationery, and that he had
written the second page in pencil on lined paper before the dedication
on
November 19.[44]
Matching folds are
still evident on the two pages, suggesting it could be the copy that
eyewitnesses say Lincoln took from his coat pocket and read at the
ceremony.[45][46]
Others believe that
the delivery text has been lost, because some of the words and phrases
of the
Nicolay copy do not match contemporary transcriptions of Lincoln's
original
speech.[citation needed] The words "under God", for
example, are missing in this copy from the phrase "that this nation
(under
God) shall have a new birth of freedom…" In order for the Nicolay
draft
to have been the reading copy, either the contemporary transcriptions
were
inaccurate, or Lincoln would have had to depart from his written text
in several
instances. This copy of the Gettysburg Address apparently remained in
John
Nicolay's possession until his death in 1901, when it passed to his
friend and
colleague John Hay.[13]
It is on permanent
display as part of the American Treasures exhibition of the Library of
Congress
in Washington, D.C.[47]
This page is about the official residence of the President of the USA.
For
other White Houses see White House (disambiguation). ...
Hay
Copy
The
Hay Copy,
with Lincoln's handwritten
corrections.
The existence of the
Hay copy
was first announced to the public in 1906, after the search for the
"original manuscript" of the Address among the papers of John Hay
brought it to light.[48]
Significantly, it
differs markedly from the manuscript of the Address described by John
Hay in
his article, and contains numerous omissions and inserts in Lincoln's
own hand,
including omissions critical to the basic meaning of the sentence, not
simply
words that would be added by Lincoln to strengthen or clarify their
meaning. Image File history File links Download
high resolution version
(640x1031, 93 KB) Summary Image of the Hay Draft of the Gettysburg
Address, in
Abraham Lincolns handwriting, from the Library of Congress website,
accessed
December 16, 2005. ... Image File history
File links
Download high resolution version (640x1031, 93 KB) Summary Image of the
Hay
Draft of the Gettysburg Address, in Abraham Lincolns handwriting, from
the
Library of Congress website, accessed December 16, 2005. ... For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation).
...
This version has been described by historian Garry Wills as "the most
inexplicable of
the five copies Lincoln made," and is sometimes referred to as the
"second draft." The "Hay Copy" was made either on the
morning of the delivery of the Address, or shortly after Lincoln's
return to
Washington. Those that believe that it was completed on the morning of
his
address point to the fact that it contains certain phrases that are not
in the
first draft but are in the reports of the address as delivered and in
subsequent copies made by Lincoln. It is probable, they conclude, that,
as
stated in the explanatory note accompanying the original copies of the
first
and second drafts in the Library of Congress,
Lincoln held this second
draft when he delivered the address.[49]
Lincoln eventually
gave this copy to his other personal secretary, John Hay, whose
descendants donated both it and the Nicolay
copy to the Library of Congress in 1916. Garry
Wills (born
May 22, 1934 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an author and historian, and a
frequent
contributor to the New York Review of Books. ... Construction
of the Thomas Jefferson Building, from July 8, 1888 to May 15, 1894. ...
John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838
– July 1, 1905) was
an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private
secretary and
assistant to Abraham Lincoln. ...