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Title Lincoln's civil war letter "almost certainly" written by secretary: UK experts Media name/outlet Xinhua Media type Web Country/Territory China Date 20/07/17 Description LONDON, July 20 (Xinhua) -- British forensic language experts revealed Thursday that one of the most famous letters to emerge during the American civil war had almost certainly not been written by Abraham Lincoln but his secretary John Hay.
The University of Manchester said the Lincoln mystery had been solved using a technique which unmasked J.K. Rowling, who penned the Harry Potter stories.URL news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/20/c_136459773.htm Persons Andrea Nini Title Civil War-era letter from Abraham Lincoln to a mother whose five sons were killed was actually written by his SECRETARY, researchers say Media name/outlet Mail Online Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 20/07/17 Description A historic letter said to be penned by then-President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 sparked decades of debate after some historians claimed it may, in fact, have been written by his secretary John Hay.
It’s a hauntingly powerful consolation written to a woman named Lydia Bixby, whose five sons were killed while fighting in the Civil War, and is said to be one of the best letters ever written in the history of the English language.URL www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4715698/1864-letter-Abe-Lincoln-written-SECRETARY.html Persons Andrea Nini Title Abraham Lincoln letter mystery solved 150 years later Media name/outlet New York Post Country/Territory United States Date 20/07/17 Description Forensic linguists say they have likely unraveled the mystery surrounding a famous Civil War-era letter, long believed to have been written by President Abraham Lincoln.
Historians have argued for years about the famed 1864 “Bixby letter” that was sent to Lydia Bixby, a mother in Boston grieving the loss of her five sons in the war. The beautifully written letter was signed A. Lincoln, although it has been suggested that the note was actually written by John Hay, Lincoln’s secretary.URL nypost.com/2017/07/20/abraham-lincoln-letter-mystery-solved-150-years-later/ Persons Andrea Nini Title Abraham Lincoln's Bixby Letter Mystery Finally Solved After 150 Years Media name/outlet Newsweek Media type Web Country/Territory United States Date 20/07/17 Description What do J.K. Rowling and Abraham Lincoln have in common, other than a penchant for producing quotable lines? Both have (probably) been unmasked for literary deception using similar forensic linguistics techniques, according to a team of academics investigating a letter from the president.
In November 1864, a woman named Lydia Bixby received a letter purportedly written by President Abraham Lincoln telling her that her sons had died in the Civil War.URL www.newsweek.com/abraham-lincoln-bixby-letter-john-hay-jk-rowling-639788 Persons Andrea Nini Title Abraham Lincoln letter mystery 'almost certainly' solved, experts say Media name/outlet Fox News Media type Web Country/Territory United States Date 20/07/17 Description Now, researchers at the University of Manchester and Aston University in the U.K. have deployed cutting-edge technology in an attempt to find out who actually wrote the letter. Harnessing a technique called N-gram tracing that searches for linguistic sequences, the team developed a series of computer programs to analyze hundreds of texts from Lincoln and Hay. URL www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/07/20/abraham-lincoln-letter-mystery-almost-certainly-solved-experts-say.html Persons Andrea Nini
Keywords
- linguistics
- Abraham Lincoln
- Bixby letter