A Letter from Lincoln's Jewish Telegrapher
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5348642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Hellerstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 625-636 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Jewish Quarterly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-6682 • E-ISSN: 1553-0604 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jqr.2004.0040 |
| OpenAlex | W2040334902 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
I'VE ALWAYS KNOWN that my great-great-grandfather, Edward Rosewater, was the telegrapher whom Abraham Lincoln assigned to transmit the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.1 I remember my grandmother taking my brothers and me, when I was twelve, into our Uncle Ed's recently vacated bedroom in her Cleveland house. There, she read to us from the letter, framed in black on the wall, her grandfather's description to his future bride of how President Abraham Lincoln, wearing white satin slippers, laughed loudly in the telegraph office on a Sunday morning in September 1862. This letter, inked on three sheets of yellowing War Department stationery in a slant, flourished hand, repre
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |