Read more about the Dryden connection to Abraham Lincoln, and see and read the speech. NEW YORK (AP) -- A handwritten manuscript of an 1864 Abraham Lincoln speech owned by a library in Dryden has ...

Dwight's widow gave the document to the Southworth Library Association in Dryden. Proceeds from the sale will go toward a new wing for the library, located in New York's Finger Lakes region.

In 1926, Dwight's widow gave the document to the Southworth Library Association in Dryden. According to the library's Web site, it displayed it only once during the 1976 bicentennial celebration.