Show few recognized beauty of gettysburg address when the speakers were being chosen to make addresses at gettysburg lit in 3 president lincoln was an afterthought und then a dubious chairman ased boig ged him to make his speech as short as possible I 1 it Is generally believed that lincoln wrote the gettysburg address on a piece of brown paper on the way to gettysburg but this Is not true according to the golden took look magazine two days before the dedication at gettysburg president lincoln had the speech almost all written britten and in lila ills iut st where lie he usually kept valuable papers the silence during the delivery of 0 the speech and the lack of hearty demonstration at its close said eald word ward hill janinn describing tha event were taken by mr lincoln as |