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The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
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Stern Collection of Lincolniana copy
Item Title
Illinois political campaign of 1858.
Other Titles
Title on box: Illinois political campaign of 1858 : Lincoln-Douglas debates edited by Abraham Lincoln. Printer's copy.
Created/Published
[Springfield, Ill.] : 1858.
Notes
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings assembled and mounted by Mr. Lincoln as a manuscript for publication. Contains the texts of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, speeches, and correspondence of Lincoln and Douglas published in newspaper accounts (primarily the Chicago Press & Tribune and the Chicago Times) between June 17 and Oct. 15, 1858. The title, captions, most notes and corrections said to be in Lincoln's hand. Other manuscript notations added by the publishers and printers. Cf. David C. Mearns' introduction in The Illinois political campaign of 1858: a facsimile of the printer's copy ... Library of Congress, 1958, p. 1-24.
Title from front free endpaper.
Later published under the title, Political debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. Columbus, Ohio: Follett, Foster & Co., 1860. 268 p.
Leaves numbered in pencil.
First caption on verso of front flyleaf. First numbered leaf preceded by a blank leaf. Leaf following leaf 75 is blank and unnumbered. See The Illinois political campaign of 1858: a facsimile of the printer's copy ..., p. 14, for full details.
Bound in black glazed and embossed cloth over boards. Yellow endpapers. Spine (rebacked?) in black leather.
Catalog of the Alfred Whital Stern collection of Lincolniana, item 89 (citation for the facsimile ed.)
Gift of Alfred Whital Stern. Previous ownership traced in detail in The Illinois political campaign of 1858: a facsimile of the printer's copy ..., p. 19-20.
Subjects
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858.
Slavery--United States.
United States--Politics and government--1857-1861.
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Political career before 1861--Sources.
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Oratory.
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Views on slavery.
Douglas, Stephen A.--(Stephen Arnold),--1813-1861.
Scrapbooks--Illinois--Springfield.
Clippings.
Related Names
Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861.
Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
Related Titles
Chicago daily press and tribune.
Chicago times (Chicago, Ill. : 1855)
Medium
[3], 95 [i.e. 97 total] leaves ; 36 cm. in a clamshell box 38 cm.
Call Number
E457.4 .L772 1858
Digital ID
( Stern Collection of Lincolniana copy ) lprbscsm scsm1048 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lprbscsm.scsm1048
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/stern.00001