I am a little girl only eleven years old but want you should be President of the United States very much so I hope you wont think me very bold to write to such a great man as you are. When Elizabeth Liz Bedell a 23-year-old staff member in the US.
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Grace bedell letter to abraham lincoln. Lincoln didnt make any promises but he wore a full beard as President-elect when he stopped in Westfield on February 16 1861 and met his young. You have successfully analyzed this letter. He claimed she wrote to Abe Lincoln when she was a little girl and received a letter in return.
Abraham Lincoln wrote this letter October 19 1860 to 11-year old Grace Bedell in response to a letter she wrote him asking him to grow a beard. Grace beldell and 11 year old westfield new york girl wrote the letter to Abraham lincoln Why did she write the letter She wrote the letter to Abraham Lincoln for suggesting him to grow a beard to improve his presidential prospects. To her Abraham Lincoln owed his iconic bearded look.
He would look better if he wore whiskers and I mean to write and tell him so. Lincoln responded in a letter on October 19 1860 making no promises. On October 15 1860 a few weeks before Lincoln was elected President of the United States Grace Bedell sent him a letter from Westfield New York urging him to grow a beard to improve his appearance.
My grandfather used to tell us we had a footnote in history Liz Bedell explained. Tom Hiddleston and Louise Brealey perform a letter sent from Grace Bedell to US president Abraham Lincoln live from Freemasons HallLETTERS LIVE celebrates. October 15th 1860 the eleven-year-old wrote the Republican presidential nominee.
In 1860 Grace wrote a letter to Lincoln telling him to grow a beard because. - Grace Bedell 1860. My father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr.
All things Civil War. Its a reply to an 11-year-old Westfield New York girl who wrote to suggest that he grow a a beard to improve his Presidential prospects. On October 15 1860 a few weeks before Lincoln was elected President of the United States Grace Bedell sent him a letter from her house at 34 Academy Street in Westfield New York urging him to grow a beard to improve his appearance.
Grand Old Partisan highlights the Grace Bedell story. Abraham Lincoln was clean shaven his entire life until he received a letter from an 11 year old girl named Grace Bedell. Transcript of page 1.
All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President. On October 15th 1860 Abraham Lincoln received a letter from 11 year old Grace Bedell of Westfield New York. In Lincolns response of October 19 he gave no promises but a month later allowed his beard to grow.
In the letter Lincoln who had never worn a beard was urged to grow whiskers by Grace because his face was so thin. A LETTER TO LINCOLN Monday July 20 2015 A LETTER TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN A girl named Grace Bedell who was just eleven years old from New York had send him a letter that made a great turning place in the historyThe letter is. Dear Sir My father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr.
However within a month he grew a full beard. Written October 15th 1860 the letter urged him to let his whiskers grow. Dear Sir Oct 15.
Lincoln responded in a letter on October 19 1860 making no promises. Grace Bedell in the 1870s Four years after her now famous Whiskers letter in 1860 an older more mature Grace Bedell again wrote Abraham Lincoln. A letter from an eleven-year-old girl in Westfield New York named Grace Bedell promised to get her brothers to vote for Lincoln if he let his beard grow.
How an 11 year old girl convinced Abe Lincoln to grow his beard. A few weeks before he was elected President Lincoln received a letter from Grace Bedell an 11-year-old girl from Westfield New York who urged him to grow a beard to help him get elected. Letter from Grace Bedell to Abraham Lincoln asking him to grow a beard to improve his chances for election.
However within a month he grew a full beard. Most followers of Lincoln lore are familiar with the story of the presidents whiskers and how as a candidate for president in 1860 a then eleven-year-girl Grace Bedell tactfully. Grace Bedells momentous letter to Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln a lifelong beardless man received a letter written by Grace Bedell an 11-year-old girl from Westfield New York. As you read this letter its easy to imagine a smile on Abraham Lincolns face as he wrote it. House of Representatives was growing up in Medford Mass she dismissed as family myth a story her grandfather often told about his Aunt Grace Bedell.
Letter to Grace Bedell. You would look a great deal better for your face is so thin she suggested. Election Day was less than a month away.
I have yet got four brothers and part of them will vote for you any way and if you let your whiskers. He later met with her.
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