LINCOLN LORE Bulletin of the Lincoln National Life Foundation -- --- Dr. Louis A. WarreniEditor Published each week by The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, ndlana Number 753 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA September 13, 1943

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Sometimes the appearance of a new Salmon P. Chase, 1861-1864 Seward, F. W., Stward at Wa8hington book will call to the attention of the 1.18 Senat., 1854. Bancroft, F., Life of William H. Sew· Lincolniana from a general library is ard, 2 vols., 1900. an indefinite number of books called Luthin, R. H., Salmon P. Chase'tt P(}o­ collateral items. A bibliography of this litical Career Bef&re the Civil ll'ar. Seward, 0. R., William H. Seward's (23) pp., 1943. Travel• Arormd the World, 730pp., large number of Lincoln J'cference 1873. items has never been attempted, except Chase, S. P., Diary and Cor-rcttpon· in Civil War compilations, where many tlence of S. P. Cl1.0.11c, 2 vols., 1903. Seward, W. H., Recent SpeecJwg and of them properly belong, yet, most of Writing• of William H. Stward, the Civil War items do not fall within William Dennison, 1864-1865 696pp., 1861. the scope of a collateral Lincoln Li­ (None listed) Adams, C. F., Lif.r, C/mracter and brary, as Yiewed by the Lincoln collec­ Services of W•lliam H. Seward, tor. William P. Fessenden, 1864-1865 47pp., 1873. This monograph is the first of a sea Fessenden, F., Lif~ and Public Servict g Seward, \V. H., E·mancipation in th6 ries of Lincoln L