04356cpcaa2200637 i 4500 mm 82052761 DLC 20260227111715.0 cr ||||||||||| 820618|||||||||||| eng mm 82052761 DLC eng dacs DLC DLC L lcmd Mearns, David C. (David Chambers), 1899-1981. David C. Mearns papers, 1830-1979 (bulk 1940-1967). 20,000 items. 161 containers plus 5 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. Open to research. 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. Selected material available through the Library of Congress Web site. Some prints and photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Some sound recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Librarian and historian. Assistant Librarian of Congress, chief of the Manuscript Division, superintendent of Reading Rooms, and director of the Reference Department. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012119 Collection related to the Library of Congress Archives. Barkley, David M., 1906-1983 Correspondence. Chambers, David Laurance, 1879-1963 Correspondence. Daniels, Jonathan, 1902-1981 Correspondence. Feinberg, Charles E., 1899-1988 Correspondence. Haverlin, Carl, 1899-1985 Correspondence. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Lydenberg, Harry Miller, 1874-1960 Correspondence. MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982 Correspondence. Miers, Earl Schenck, 1910-1972 Correspondence. Newman, Ralph Geoffrey, 1911- Correspondence. Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 Correspondence. Schwengel, Fred, 1907-1993 Correspondence. Stern, Alfred Whital, 1881-1960 Correspondence. Trohan, Walter, 1903- Correspondence. Turner, Justin G. Correspondence. Library of Congress. Library of Congress Officials and employees. Historians. itoamc Librarians. itoamc Mearns, David C. (David Chambers), 1899-1981. The Lincoln papers; the story of the collection, with selections to July 4, 1861. 1948. Mearns, David C. (David Chambers), 1899-1981. The story up to now; the Library of Congress, 1800-1946. 1947. Freedom's Fortress: the Library of Congress, 1939-1953 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000001 Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012119 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012119.3 43648 43648