Abraham Lincoln papers, 1774-1948.
- 40,550 items. 221 10 containers plus oversize. 98 microfilm reels. 48 linear feet.
- Arranged in 5 series. Series 1: General Correspondence and Related Documents, 1833-1916; Series 2: Additional Correspondence, 1858-1865; Series 3: Miscellaneous, 1837-1897; Series 4: Addenda, 1774-1948; and Series 5: Oversize, 1776-1865.
Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
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.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1960.
Selected materials appropriate custodial divisions of the Library of Congress. transferred to
U.S. president and representative and lawyer from Illinois.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009304 Index published by the Library of Congress in 1960 available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. Cataloged in record 60060014.
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Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 --Correspondence. Bates, Edward, 1793-1869 --Correspondence. Blair, Montgomery, 1813-1883 --Correspondence. Brewster, Benjamin Harris, 1816-1888 --Correspondence. Chase, Salmon P. 1808-1873 --Correspondence. Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 --Correspondence. Davis, David, 1815-1886 --Correspondence. Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885 --Correspondence. Hay, John, 1838-1905 --Correspondence. Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 --Correspondence. Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876 --Correspondence. Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 --Correspondence. McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885 --Correspondence. Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872 --Correspondence. Morgan, Edwin D. 1811-1883 --Correspondence. Nicolay, John G. 1832-1901. Nicolay, John G. 1832-1901 --Correspondence. Rosecrans, William S. 1819-1898 --Correspondence. Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 --Correspondence. Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886 --Correspondence. Smith, Caleb B. 1808-1864 --Correspondence. Speed, James, 1812-1887 --Correspondence. Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869 --Correspondence. Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 --Correspondence. Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896 --Correspondence. Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 --Correspondence. Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905 --Correspondence. Washburne, E. B. 1816-1887 --Correspondence. Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 --Correspondence.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.
Lawyers. Presidents--United States. Representatives, U.S. Congress--Illinois.