Subject: FW: Lincoln's Bible
From: Chris Lu <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Sara Latham <[email-masked]>, Dan Pfeiffer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:49:25 -0500

This seems like something we ought to seriously consider.
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From: Susan Shaw [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Thu 11/6/2008 5:33 PM
To: Lu, Chris (Obama)
Subject: Lincoln's Bible

Chris,

The Library of Congress would like to offer Senator Obama the Bible used in 1861 by Abraham Lincoln on his first Inaugural to be sworn in on if your office is interested.
Given the announced theme for the Inaugural of celebrating the Bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, using the Lincoln Bible would be an excellent symbol for the nation on this historic occasion.

Here is a digital file with more information on the Bible.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt040.html

This Bible is contained in the Library's Rare Book Division and was given to the Library in 1928 by Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln.  It will be exhibited in the Library of Congress Lincoln Exhibition which opens in Feb. 2009.

The Library also has much other Lincoln material that might be of use and we are happy to make it, and our Lincoln scholar, Dr. John Sellers, available to your office if you are interested.

For your information, we will also sharing this information with staff of Sen. Durbin and Sen. Feinstein (Inaugural Committee).

Thanks Chris.  Let me know what you think!
Sue Shaw