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Dear Resa,

    Please check on two items from this issue's table of contents.

    If you type into a search engine "Lincoln's Ten Cannots," you will see sources that say that Lincoln did not say them, but that the Reverend William J. H. Boetcker did.  Boetcker, say these sources, gave himself credit for them, but that people who read a leaflet whose one side on "limitations" had a genuine quotation from Lincoln, and whose other side bore Boetcker's "ten cannots" gave Lincoln the credit for them, despite the leaflet's plainly saying that Boetcker wrote them!

    Also, when I was in college, I read the same quotation that you attribute to Alexander Fraser Tyler, as having come from a fellow whose name is spelled in that way.  I think that my sources may have included the late Dan Smoot.  So, decades later, when I saw the thing attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, I looked up that author.  Sure enough, Tytler seems to be the right spelling;  nevertheless, "Tyler" still enjoys a lot of popularity.

    I just thought that you would like to know.
 

Happy New Year!

Gordon

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