Mearns, David C.  1899-1981. <br/><br/>
David C. Mearns papers, 1830-1979  (bulk 1940-1967). 

 - 20,000  items. 161  5  containers plus  oversize. 65  linear feet. 
 -  Arranged in ten series.  Series 1: Biographical and Personal Matters, 1948-1967; Series 2: Correspondence, 1949-1967; Series 3: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1949-1967; Series 4: Subject File, 1931-1967; Series 5: Speeches and Writings, 1921-circa 1970; Series 6: Research File; Series 7: Editorial File and Advisory Review Material; Series 8: Miscellany, 1830-1967; Series 9: Addition, 1918-1979; and Series 10: Oversize, 1865-ca. 1945. 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> Correspondence, writings, reports, and orders documenting Mearns's career as an official and historian of the Library of Congress and scholar of Abraham Lincoln.  Includes drafts of Mearn's works, The Story up to Now; The Library of Congress, 1800-1946 (1947) and The Lincoln Papers; The Story of the Collection, with Selections to July 4, 1861 (1948).  Correspondents include David M. Barkley, David Laurence Chambers, Jonathan Daniels, Charles E. Feinberg, Carl Haverlin, Harry Miller Lydenberg, Archibald MacLeish, Earl Schenck Miers, Ralph Geoffrey Newman, Carl Sandburg, Fred Schwengel, Alfred Whital Stern, Walter Trohan, and Justin G. Turner. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Some prints and photographs <br/>Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <br/>transferred to <br/>Some sound recordings <br/>Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. <br/>transferred to 
<br/><br/><br/>Librarian and historian.  Assistant Librarian of Congress, chief of the Manuscript Division, superintendent of Reading Rooms, and director of the Reference Department. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012119 
<br/><br/>Collection related to the Library of Congress Archives. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 82052761  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Barkley, David M., 1906-1983 --Correspondence.<br/>Chambers, David Laurance, 1879-1963 --Correspondence.<br/>Daniels, Jonathan, 1902-1981 --Correspondence.<br/>Feinberg, Charles E., 1899-1988 --Correspondence.<br/>Haverlin, Carl, 1899-1985 --Correspondence.<br/>Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. <br/>Lydenberg, Harry Miller, 1874-1960 --Correspondence.<br/>MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982 --Correspondence.<br/>Miers, Earl Schenck, 1910-1972 --Correspondence.<br/>Newman, Ralph Geoffrey, 1911- --Correspondence.<br/>Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 --Correspondence.<br/>Schwengel, Fred, 1907-1993 --Correspondence.<br/>Stern, Alfred Whital, 1881-1960 --Correspondence.<br/>Trohan, Walter, 1903- --Correspondence.<br/>Turner, Justin G.--Correspondence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Library of Congress.<br/>Library of Congress--Officials and employees.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Occupation: </label><br/>Historians.<br/>Librarians.