Editing Gettysburg Address (section)

=== Bancroft copy ===
The Bancroft copy{{Ref label|Bancroft|d|d}} of the Gettysburg Address was written out by Lincoln in February 1864, following the ceremonial dedication, at the request of [[George Bancroft]], a former [[United States Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]] and historian whose comprehensive ten-volume ''History of the United States'' later led him to be known as the "father of American History".<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=George Bancroft|access-date=December 19, 2007|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/51366/George-Bancroft|date=|archive-date=May 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503122629/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Bancroft-American-historian|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>See also: {{cite encyclopedia|url=http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761553688/George_Bancroft.html |access-date=December 19, 2007 |title=George Bancroft |encyclopedia=Encarta |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028222041/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761553688/George_Bancroft.html |archive-date=October 28, 2009 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> Bancroft planned to include this copy of the Gettysburg Address in ''Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors'', which he planned to sell at a Soldiers' and Sailors' [[Sanitary Fair]] in [[Baltimore]]. This copy, known as the fourth copy of the address, was written by Lincoln on both sides of the paper, and it ultimately proved unusable for this purpose, and Bancroft was allowed to keep it. This manuscript is the only one version accompanied  by a letter from Lincoln transmitting the manuscript and by the original envelope addressed and [[franking|franked]] by Lincoln.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/gettysburg/good_cause.htm|title=Gettysburg Address|publisher=Cornell University Library|access-date=December 19, 2007|archive-date=May 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503122626/https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/gettysburg/good_cause.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The Bancroft copy was held by the Bancroft family for many years, and was later sold to various dealers and purchased by Nicholas and Marguerite Lilly Noyes,<ref>{{cite web|title=Founding Collections: Nicholas H. Noyes '06 and Marguerite Lilly Noyes|url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/footsteps/exhibition/foundingcollections/foundingcollections_5.html|publisher=Cornell University Library|access-date=November 28, 2007|archive-date=May 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503122646/https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/footsteps/exhibition/foundingcollections/foundingcollections_5.html|url-status=live}}</ref> who donated it to [[Cornell University]] in 1949. The Bancroft copy is now held by the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in the Carl A. Kroch Library at Cornell University.<ref name="gnmp" /> This is the only copy among the five that is privately owned.<ref>{{cite web |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |title=C.U. Holds Gettysburg Address Manuscript |url=http://cornellsun.com/node/14486 |date=April 6, 2005 |access-date=December 18, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111165322/http://cornellsun.com/node/14486 |archive-date=January 11, 2012  }}</ref>