Identifier: abrahamlincolnssjnlinc (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln's secretaries
Year: 1946 Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Nicolay, Helen, 1866-1954 Nicolay, Helen, 1866-1954
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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nce the name inserted in the blank space isJohn Hay. These envelope forms with the blank space left forsignatures indicate that it was anticipated that theywould be used by various people, or more than one atleast. Otherwise the name of John G. Nicolay would havebeen printed in. Possibly the signature served the purposeof a franking notice and was so construed. In twoinstances where John Hay uses this type of envelope itappears as if he had crossed out the title Priv. Sec. In Stoddards reminiscence of White House Daysthere is this tribute to the President: I do not know or believe that he ever found faultwith one of his private secretaries in all the onerous anddelicate duties with which they were charged. The roster of the Executive Mansion Secretariat asrevealed by the evidence presented would contain thenames of John G. Nicolay, John Hay, William O. Stod-dard, Edward Duffield Neill, Charles H. Philbrick, Gus-tave H. Matile, and W. A. Browning. Lincolns SecretaryAppreciated His Boss
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MISS HELEN NICOLAY (left) is the daughter ofJohn G. Nicolay, secretary to Abraham Lincoln. The draw-ing is by Joseph Parrish of The Chicago Tribune. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. (AP) —Abraham Lincolns private secre-tary considered the Civil War pres-idents place in history so impor-tant he even declined to tell anyanecdotes about the great man tohis little daughter. In disclosing this. Miss HelenNicolay said that her father, JohrG. Nicolay, had a strong feelingthat Lincolns accomplishmentswere so great and his position inthe na-tions history so outstandingthat personal details should bepassed by. Nicolay was Lincolns secretaryfrom 1860 to 1865 and later collab-orated with another secretary,John Hay, in a comprehensive Lin-coln biography. Helen Nicolay, anauthor who lives here, was born inFrance the year after Lincolnsassassination. Her father was serv-ing then as American consul atParis. Despite her fathers reluctanceto discuss Lincolns personal lifethe sprightly white-haired womanhas three

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