Mearns, David C. (David Chambers) 1899-1981 creator mixed material monographic eng 20,000 161 5 65 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. Open to research. 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 Librarians Mearns, David C. (David Chambers), 1899-1981 Mearns, David C. (David Chambers), 1899-1981 mm 82052761 hdl:loc.mss/collmss.ms000001 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012119 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012119.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000001 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012119 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012119.3 Open to research. DLC 820618 20260227111715.0 mm 82052761 eng