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  <titleInfo>
    <title>J.G. Randall and Ruth Painter Randall papers, 1779-1970 (bulk 1916-1970)</title>
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    <namePart>Randall, J. G. (James Garfield)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1881-1953</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journal, speeches, writings, research materials, printed matter, financial records, and other papers primarily concerning J.G. Randall's works on Abraham Lincoln and on the Civil War.  Also includes materials relating to Randall's tenure as professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and to Ruth Painter Randall's research and writings, especially her book titled Mary Lincoln; Biography of a Marriage (1953).</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Paul M. Angle, William E. Baringer, Roy P. Basler, Howard K. Beale, Henry Steele Commager, Avery Craven, Bernard Augustine De Voto, David Herbert Donald, Frank Burt Freidel, William Best Hesseltine, Reinhard H. Luthin, David C. Mearns, George Fort Milton, Jay Monaghan, Jeanette Paddock Nichols, Roy F. Nichols, Theodore Calvin Pease, David Morris Potter, Harry E. Pratt, Milo Milton Quaife, Carl Sandburg, Wendell Holmes Stephenson, Bell Irvin Wiley, and T. Harry Williams.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>J.G. Randall: author, historian, and educator.  Ruth Painter Randall: biographer; born, 1892; died, 1971.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Angle, Paul M. (Paul McClelland)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-1975</namePart>
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      <namePart>Baringer, William E. (William Eldon)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1909-2000</namePart>
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      <namePart>Basler, Roy P. (Roy Prentice)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1989</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Beale, Howard K. (Howard Kennedy)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1959</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Commager, Henry Steele</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1998</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Craven, Avery</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1980</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>De Voto, Bernard Augustine</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1955</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Donald, David Herbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1920-2009</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Freidel, Frank</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1916-1993</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Hesseltine, William Best</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1963</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Lincoln, Abraham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1865</namePart>
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      <namePart>Lincoln, Mary Todd</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1882</namePart>
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      <namePart>Luthin, Reinhard H. (Reinhard Henry)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1905-1962</namePart>
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      <namePart>Mearns, David C. (David Chambers)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1981</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Milton, George Fort</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1955</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Monaghan, Jay</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-1980</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Nichols, Jeannette Paddock</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1982</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Nichols, Roy F. (Roy Franklin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1896-1973</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Pease, Theodore Calvin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1887-1948</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Pratt, Harry E. (Harry Edward)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1901-1956</namePart>
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      <namePart>Quaife, Milo Milton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1959</namePart>
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      <namePart>Sandburg, Carl</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1967</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stephenson, Wendell Holmes</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1970</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Wiley, Bell Irvin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1980</namePart>
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      <namePart>Williams, T. Harry (Thomas Harry)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1909-1979</namePart>
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