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Collection Summary
Title | Herndon-Weik collection of Lincolniana, circa 1824-1933 |
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Span Dates | circa 1824-1933 |
ID No. | MSS25791 |
Collector | Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891 |
Creator | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 |
Collector | Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930 |
Extent | 4,600 items ; 36 containers ; 10 linear feet ; 15 microfilm reels |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Summary | Collection composed of the papers of Abraham Lincoln, United States president, United States representative from Illinois, and lawyer; William Henry Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, collector, and biographer from Springfield, Illinois; and Jesse William Weik, lawyer of Greencastle, Indiana, and coauthor of Herndon Lincoln. Includes records (1933) of the Weik Manuscript Corporation and miscellaneous material collected chiefly by Herndon and Weik for use in writing Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889). |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001002 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Online Catalog record for this collection: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm74025791 |