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THE OF LEW AND SUSAN WALLACE A documentary edition published by the Indiana Historical Society Press, Indianapolis, in cooperation with the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, and made possible through the generous funding of Lilly papersEndowment Inc., 2016 THE PAPERS OF LEW AND SUSAN WALLACE Digital Edition Douglas E. Clanin, Editor Donald E. Thompson, Editor, 1984–92 Kathleen M. Breen and M. Teresa Baer, Digital Project Editors Laura M. Bachelder, M. Teresa Baer, Lucinda J. Barnhart, Heather Jo Beatty, Suzanne S. Bellamy, Alan A. Bouwkamp, Kathleen M. Breen, Marcia R. Caudell, Paula J. Corpuz, Ruth Dorrel, Anita M. Downton, Jennifer Duplaga, Mark G. Emerson, John W. Knorr, Shaun Chandler Lighty, Shirley McCord, Lindsey Mintz, Carolyn Pumroy, and Bradley K. Weaver Editorial Assistants C. M. Harris, Consulting Editor, 1989–2001 Thomas A. Mason, Project Director Published by the Indiana Historical Society Press, Indianapolis In cooperation with Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington Made possible through the generous funding of Lilly Endowment, Inc. 2018 ©2008 Indiana Historical Society Press ©2016 Digital Edition Indiana Historical Society Press Indiana Historical Society Press Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center 450 West Ohio Street Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-3269 USA www.indianahistory.org Telephone orders 1-800-447-1830 Fax orders 1-317-234-0562 Online orders @ http://shop.indianahistory.org Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The papers of Lew and Susan Wallace [microform] / Douglas E. Clanin [and] Donald E. Thompson, editors; C. M. Harris, consulting editor; Thomas A. Mason, project director. 49 microfilm reels; 35 mm. "Published by the Indiana Historical Society Press, Indianapolis, in cooperation with the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington." Summary: Reproduces the papers of Lew Wallace, a Civil War general and member of the military tribunal that convicted the Lincoln conspirators and the commandant of Andersonville Prison, a writer (Ben-Hur), a diplomat, and a lecturer; also reproduces the papers of his wife, Susan Wallace, a writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and travel accounts. ISBN 978-0-87195-271-4 (set) The Papers of Lew and Susan Wallace Digital Edition For Josiah Kirby Lilly Jr. (1893–1966) Philanthropist, bibliophile, collector, and patron of the arts iv EDITORIAL BOARD FOR THE PAPERS OF LEW AND SUSAN WALLACE B. Breon Mitchell, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington H. Wayne Morgan, University of Oklahoma, Norman Katharine M. Morsberger, Claremont, California Robert E. Morsberger, California State University, Pomona John Y. Simon, Ulysses S. Grant Association, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Saundra B. Taylor, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington Lee Scott Theisen, Schenectady Museum and Planetarium, New York Robert M. Utley, Georgetown, Texas v TABLE OF CONTENTS PAPERS OF LEW AND SUSAN WALLACE Acknowledgments and History of the Project 1 Introduction 6 Biographical Sketches of Lew and Susan Wallace 9 A Select Bibliography 20 Brief History and Overview of the Papers of Lew and Susan Wallace 28 Editorial Method: Selection Criteria, Electronic Finding Aid, and Itinerary File 31 Location Symbols for Manuscript Repositories 35 Abbreviations and Short Title List 40 Series I, Correspondence and Other Documents 32 microfilm reels Reel 1: 1834–April 18, 1861 Reel 2: April 19, 1861–March 31, 1862 Reel 3: April 1–September 9, 1862 Reel 4: September 10, 1862–July 11, 1863 Reel 5: July 12, 1863–May 3, 1864 Reel 6: May 4–July 8, 1864 Reel 7: July 9–September 5, 1864 Reel 8: September 7–December 26, 1864 Reel 9: December 27, 1864–June 3, 1865 Reel 10: June 4, 1865–May 30, 1866 Reel 11: June 9, 1866–December 31, 1872 Reel 12: January 6, 1873–October 8, 1878 Reel 13: October 9, 1878–April 30, 1879 vi Reel 14: May 1, 1879–February 26, 1881 Reel 15: March 1–October 24, 1881 Reel 16: October 25, 1881–April 10, 1882 Reel 17: April 11–September 22, 1882 Reel 18: September 23, 1882–February 28, 1883 Reel 19: March 1–June 8, 1883 Reel 20: June 9–September 7, 1883 Reel 21: September 10, 1883–February 23, 1884 Reel 22: February 24–May 7, 1884 Reel 23: May 8, 1884–March 24, 1885 Reel 24: March 25, 1885–April 6, 1887 Reel 25: April 7, 1887–[April 4, 1889] Reel 26: May 1, 1889–July 29, 1893 Reel 27: August 5, 1893–July 27, 1896 Reel 28: August 11, 1896–March 21, 1899 Reel 29: March 23, 1899–June 29, 1901 Reel 30: July 1, 1901–March 25, 1904 Reel 31: April 1, 1904–April 19, 1909 Reel 32: Undated Documents Series II, Literary Manuscripts (unless otherwise noted, by Lew Wallace) 16 microfilm reels Reel 1: “An American Duchess” Reel 2: “Autobiography” Reel 3: “Finding the Mother and Sister of Ben-Hur” (an extract from the novel, “Ben- Hur,” located in five readings) “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ” (novel) vii Reel 4: “To Bethlehem” by Susan Wallace “The Boyhood of Christ,” holograph manuscript “The Boyhood of Christ,” typescript of holograph manuscript “The Boyhood of Christ,” autograph manuscript Reel 5: “Commodus” (play) Reel 6: Aztec Notes, etc. (holograph manuscripts, 1849–1873), made in writing “The Fair God” “The Death of Teceth, No. 1,” an extract from Lew Wallace’s novel, “The Fair God,” located in five readings “The Fair God,” novel fragment Reel 7: “The Fair God,” holograph manuscript, 1849–1873 Reel 8: “How I Came to Write Ben-Hur,” located in five readings Manuscript Notebook by Susan Wallace, 1859–1874 “Our English Cousin” (play) Reel 9: “Sergius to the Lion” (chapter from “The Prince of India,” located in five readings) Original Holographic Notes for “The Prince of India” Reel 10: “The Prince of India” (novel) (InU-Li) Reel 11: “A Sermon in Sancta Sophia, 1451” (fiction piece, extract from “The Prince of India,” located in five readings) “Wooing of Malkatoon” Reels 12–15: “The Prince of India” (autograph manuscript of novel) (InCW: Robert T. Ramsay Jr. Archival Center, Lilly Library, Special Collections, Uncataloged volumes 178–181) Reel 16: Fragments and Miscellanea Series III, Visual Materials 1 microfilm reel Acknowledgments and History of the Project A work of the complexity and size of The Papers of Lew and Susan Wallace could not have been completed without the assistance of a large number of people and organizations. Space dictates, however, that we, the current staff of The Papers of Lew and Susan Wallace, acknowledge by name only a comparatively few individuals and institutions who assisted us over the years. In 1984 the Indiana Historical Society (IHS) responded to a proposal presented by Donald E. Thompson, retired Wabash College librarian and archivist, and began to provide some financial assistance to the fledgling Lew and Susan Wallace Papers project, which was located in the Lilly Library at Wabash College for the first several years. Thompson’s interest in the Wallaces was an outgrowth of his work on Indiana Authors and Their Books (Crawfordsville, IN: Wabash College, 1949–81). This digital conversion of the microfilm edition is the culmination of our efforts to bring Thompson’s “big idea” to fruition. Thomas A. Mason, who became director of Publications in 1987, soon began to direct more of the Society’s resources toward moving the project forward. C. M. Harris (a past National Historical Publications and Records Commission [NHPRC] Fellow in Advanced Historical Editing and editor of the Papers of William Thornton) collected copies of Wallace documents during research trips to the Library of Congress, National Archives, and many other repositories, and added thousands of document copies to the Wallace project files. After Thompson’s death in 1992, the project moved from Wabash College to the IHS in Indianapolis. Douglas E. Clanin joined the Wallace project staff after completing The Papers of William Henry Harrison, 1800– 1815, which the Society published in ten microfilm rolls in 1999. He rechecked the principal 2 relevant central Indiana document collections and searched auction catalogs and newspapers. Clanin retired from the Society in 2005. Throughout the life of the Wallace project, editorial assistants followed up on document search inquiries with repositories, dealers, and private owners; organized the project files; reconciled the document files with the project control files, which they maintained in a computer database in the form of an electronic finding aid (EFA); and created target pages for each of the microfilmed documents. The most recent editorial assistants and the years they worked on the Wallace Papers project are Alan A. Bouwkamp and Shaun Chandler Lighty, 2006; Lucinda Barnhart, 2003–5; Suzanne S. Bellamy, 2001–5; and Marcia R. Caudell, 1999–2003. Other editorial assistants who worked on the Wallace project and their years of service are: Carolyn Pumroy, 1984–94; Bradley K. Weaver, 1989–95; Laura M. Bachelder, 1994–95; John W. Knorr, 1995–96; M. Teresa Baer, 1996–97; Anita M. Downton, 1997–98; Mark G. Emerson, 1998; Heather Jo Beatty, 1998–99; Lindsey Mintz, 2000–2001; Jennifer Duplaga, 2003; and Ruth Dorrel, 2005–6. Martha Cantrell, 1989; Jean Thompson, 1989–92; and Jennifer Weaver, 1991– 92, assisted Thompson during the project’s years at Wabash College. IHS Press editor Kathleen M. Breen directed the digital edition project with the assistance of managing editor M. Teresa Baer, along with former senior director Paula Corpuz, who secured rights and permissions. Chris McCoy, IHS graphic designer, created the cover design for the digital edition. Seyma Coskun traveled to Istanbul in 1999 and 2003 to search the Ottoman Archives and other repositories in Istanbul. She used her fluency in Ottoman Turkish to locate several dozen Wallace-related documents. In 2004 Johanna R. Herring searched the Robert T. Ramsay Jr. Archival Center in the Lilly Library at Wabash College and located and copied several Wallace documents.