Title: The Gettysburg address
Description: As part of Cornell University's September 11 commemoration, the Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections has created a new web site devoted to its handwritten copy of the Gettysburg Address.  The site includes images of Lincoln's hand-written speech, as well as the transmittal letter and envelope.  Also included is a contemporary news clipping about the battle and the dedication ceremony.
Subjects: Consecration of cemeteries
Places: Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pa.), Pennsylvania, Gettysburg
People: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)