Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews was an American writer best known for a widely read short story about Abraham Lincoln, often printed as a small volume called The Perfect Tribute. She published many works between 1906 and 1930.

She married William Shankland Andrews, judge of the New York Court of Appeals. They had one child. Their estate, Wolf Hollow, is extant at Taunton, New York.

This 1908 edition. Forty-three years after the Gettysburg Address, this little work of fiction sheds light on what Lincoln must have felt at the time he wrote and delivered the Gettysburg Address. It seems especially pertinent today, as the soundness of our democracy is stretched almost to its limits.