Abraham Lincoln papers
by Abraham Lincoln
Correspondence and other papers relating primarily to Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the Civil War. Includes two drafts of the Gettysburg address, material preserved by John G. Nicolay in his capacities as Lincoln's secretary and editor of the Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln (1905), a letter of condolence from Queen Victoria to Mary Todd Lincoln, and a small amount of material about Lincoln dated after 1865. Correspondents include Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Edward Bates, Montgomery Blair, Benjamin Harris Brewster, Salmon P. Chase, Schuyler Colfax, David Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, John Hay, Andrew Johnson, Reverdy Johnson, George Brinton McClellan, George Gordon Meade, Edwin D. Morgan, John G. Nicolay, William S. Rosecrans, William Henry Seward, Horatio Seymour, Caleb B. Smith, James Speed, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Charles Sumner, Lyman Trumbull, Lew Wallace, E.B. Washburne, and Gideon Welles.
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Correspondence, Politics and government, HistoryPeople
Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), E. B. Washburne (1816-1887), Caleb B. Smith (1808-1864), Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882), James Speed (1812-1887), Victoria Queen of Great Britain (1819-1901), John G. Nicolay (1832-1901), Lew Wallace (1827-1905), George Gordon Meade (1815-1872), William Henry Seward (1801-1872), Benjamin Harris Brewster (1816-1888), Edwin D. Morgan (1811-1883), Montgomery Blair (1813-1883), Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873), Charles Sumner (1811-1874), George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885), Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869), Gideon Welles (1802-1878), Lyman Trumbull (1813-1896), Horatio Seymour (1810-1886), John Hay (1838-1905), Reverdy Johnson (1796-1876), Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (1816-1894), Schuyler Colfax (1823-1885), Edward Bates (1793-1869), David Davis (1815-1886), William S. Rosecrans (1819-1898)Places
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Edition Notes
Open to research.
Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Series 1, General correspondence (1833-1916), available through the Library of Congress Web site.
Microfilm edition (J. F. Alexander) available, no. 5,075 (1N).
Microfilm edition of Series 1-3 available, no. 12,005-97N (no. 12,088-97P; 2nd copy: no. 12,088.1-97P).
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1960.
Gift, Robert Todd Lincoln, 1923.
Gift, Helen Nicolay, 1947.
Other gifts, transfers, deposits, purchases, and reproductions, 1901-2005.
transferred to appropriate custodial divisions of the Library of Congress.
U.S. president and representative and lawyer from Illinois.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.
Index published by the Library of Congress in 1960 available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet. Cataloged in record 60060014.
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