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=== Everett copy === The Everett copy,{{Ref label|Everett|c|c}} also known as the "Everett-Keyes copy"{{why|date=April 2023}}, was given to [[Edward Everett]] by Lincoln in early 1864, after Everett requested it.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Peatman |first1=Jared |title=Writing the Gettysburg Address |journal=Civil War Book Review |date=2014 |volume=16 |issue=2 |page=3 |doi=10.31390/cwbr.16.2.10 |url=https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2231&context=cwbr |access-date=22 February 2022|doi-access=free }}</ref> Everett collected the speeches at the Gettysburg dedication into a bound volume, which was soldl for the benefit of stricken soldiers at New York's [[United States Sanitary Commission|Sanitary Commission Fair]]. The draft Lincoln sent Everett is known as the third autograph copy, and is now held by the [[Illinois State Library]] in [[Springfield, Illinois]],<ref name="gnmp"/> where it is displayed in the Treasures Gallery of the [[Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum]].
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