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    <title>Abraham Lincoln papers, 1774-1948</title>
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    <namePart>Lincoln, Abraham</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1809-1865</namePart>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Series 1, General correspondence (1833-1916), available through the Library of Congress Web site.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition (J. F. Alexander) available, no. 5,075 (1N).</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of Series 1-3 available, no. 12,005-97N (no. 12,088-97P; 2nd copy: no. 12,088.1-97P).</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1960.</note>
  <note>Selected materials transferred to appropriate custodial divisions of the Library of Congress.</note>
  <note>U.S. president and representative and lawyer from Illinois.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009304">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009304</note>
  <note>Index published by the Library of Congress in 1960 available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.  Cataloged in record 60060014.</note>
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      <namePart>Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1894</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Bates, Edward</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1793-1869</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blair, Montgomery</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1883</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brewster, Benjamin Harris</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1888</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1873</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Colfax, Schuyler</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1885</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davis, David</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1886</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1885</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hay, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1905</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Johnson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1875</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Reverdy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1796-1876</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lincoln, Mary Todd</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1882</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McClellan, George Brinton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1826-1885</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Meade, George Gordon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1872</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morgan, Edwin D. (Edwin Denison)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1883</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nicolay, John G. (John George)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1901</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nicolay, John G. (John George)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1901</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1898</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Seward, William Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1801-1872</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Seymour, Horatio</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1810-1886</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1864</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Speed, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1812-1887</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Stanton, Edwin McMasters</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1814-1869</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Sumner, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1874</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Trumbull, Lyman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1896</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Queen of Great Britain</namePart>
      <namePart>Victoria</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1901</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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      <namePart>Wallace, Lew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1827-1905</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Washburne, E. B. (Elihu Benjamin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1887</namePart>
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      <namePart>Welles, Gideon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1802-1878</namePart>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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