University of Chicago Library Guide to the Lincoln Collection, Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscripts 1587-1924 © 2009 University of Chicago Library Table of Contents Descriptive Summary 3 Information on Use 3 Access 3 Digital Images 3 Citation 4 Biographical Note 4 Scope Note 4 Related Resources 5 Subject Headings 5 INVENTORY 5 Descriptive Summary Identifier ICU.SPCL.LINCOLNMSS Title Lincoln Collection. Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscripts Date 1587-1924 Size 8.5 linear feet (13 boxes) Repository Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A. Abstract The Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscript section of the William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana contains an array of material relating to Abraham Lincoln, his parentage, the Civil War, and his presidency. This section includes briefs, pardons, and commissions in Lincoln's hand, original letters of Mary Todd Lincoln, one of the few extant letters written by Lincoln to his wife, and a letter written by Willie Lincoln while accompanying his father on a trip to Chicago. It also includes letters written by members of the Lincoln cabinet and other notable political and military figures of the time, material by Gideon Welles. Information on Use Access The collection is open for research. Digital Images Original documents, texts, and images represented by digital images linked to this finding aid are subject to U. S. copyright law. It is the user's sole responsibility to secure any necessary copyright permission to reproduce or publish documents, texts, and images from any holders of rights in the original materials. 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Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscripts, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library Biographical Note The Rev. William Eleazar Barton (1861-1930) was one of the early twentieth century's most prominent writers and lecturers on the life of Abraham Lincoln. Born in Sublette, Illinois, in the same year Lincoln assumed the presidency, Barton grew up in an environment heavily influenced by reverence for Lincoln. After pursuing undergraduate studies at Berea College in Kentucky, Barton earned his divinity degree from the Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1890. He served parishes in Tennessee, Ohio, and Massachusetts before becoming the pastor of the First Congregational Church of Oak Park, Illinois, a position he held until his retirement in 1924. Four years later, Barton accepted an appointment as lecturer at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, where he also organized and served as pastor of the Collegeside Congregational Church. Barton's work as a writer produced a number of denominational manuals for church organization and a series of books presenting the wisdom and parables of a character he named Safed in Sage. For the last ten years of his life, however, Barton was best known to the public as a prolific author and lecturer on Abraham Lincoln. His publications about Lincoln included The Soul of Abraham Lincoln (1920), The Paternity of Abraham Lincoln (1920), The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1925), The Great and Good Man (1927), The Women Lincoln Loved (1927), and The Lincoln of the Biographers (1930). In the course of compiling material for his writings and talks, Barton visited Lincoln sites in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois; interviewed surviving Lincoln relatives and acquaintances; and traveled as far a California and England to collect information and conduct genealogical research on the ancestry of the Lincoln family. While acquiring a large collection of books, periodicals, pamphlets, manuscripts, and ephemera related to Lincoln and the Civil War era, Barton also purchased privately or at auction historical materials amassed by other Lincoln collectors such as John E. Burton and Osborn H. Oldroyd. Scope Note 4 The Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscript section of the William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana consists of 10 linear feet and contains an array of material relating to Abraham Lincoln, his parentage, the Civil War and his presidency. This section includes briefs, pardons, and commissions in Lincoln's hand, original letters of Mary Todd Lincoln, one of the few extant letters written by Lincoln to his wife, and a letter written by Willie Lincoln while accompanying his father on a trip to Chicago. It also includes letters written by members of the Lincoln cabinet and other notable political and military figures of the time, material by Gideon Welles. The manuscripts have been arranged alphabetically. Several items were identified as being oversized and have been moved to Box 12 and Box 13. A SEE reference has been added to the descriptions of the oversized items. Related Resources The following related resources are located in the Department of Special Collections: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/select.html Subject Headings • Barton, William Eleazar, 1861-1930, collector • Blair, Montgomery, 1813-1883 • Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 • Conkling, Roscoe, 1829-1888 • Curtin, Andrew Gregg, 1815-1894 • Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 • Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 • Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 • Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 • McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885 • Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872 • Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 • Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 • Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869 • Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 • Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 • Douglas, Stephen A, (Stephen Arnold 1813-1861) • Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 • • United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1877 • United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 • Lincoln family INVENTORY Box 1 Folder 1 Abercrombie, John J., Fort Columbus, to Assistant Adjutant General, U.S.A., NY, 1854 December 13, L.S. 1 p. 5 View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0001-001 Box 1 Folder 2 Abercrombie, John J., Belle Plain, [MD], to T.S. Burris, n.p., 1864 May 14, L.S. 1 p. View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0001-002 Box 1 Folder 3 Abercrombie, John J., White House, VA, to an unknown person, n.p., 1864 June 9, L.S. 1 p. View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0001-003 Box 1 Folder 4 Adair, John, Statement that Abraham Linkhorn (sic) has entered the 400 acres of land on Treasury Warrant, 1780 May 29, D.S. 1 p. Photostat View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0001-004 Box 1 Folder 5 Alexander, Andrew J., n.p., to an unknown person, n.p., 1862 June 25, A.L.S. 1 p. View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0001-005 Box 1 Folder 6 Alexander, Col. E.B., St. Louis, to Capt. Hubbard, Springfield, IL, Telegram calling for the arrest of John Wilkes Booth., 1865 April 15, 1 p. View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0001-006 Box 1 Folder 7 American Colonization Society, Certificate of membership of G.W. Norton, signed by Henry Clay., 1849 June 29, D.S. 1 p. View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0001-007 Box 1 Folder 8 Anderson, William F., and others, Virginia and Carson Cities, Utah Territories, to Abraham Lincoln, n.p. (oversize), 1861 February 2, A.L.S. 3 p., SEE OVERSIZE Box 12, Folder 5 View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0012-005 • SEE OVERSIZE Box 12, Folder 5 Box 1 Folder 9 Andrew, Gov. John, Boston, to [Abraham Lincoln], n.p., 1863 September 28, A.L.S. 1 p. Includes copy of a letter to Andrew from an unknown person, 3 p., 1863 September 26 View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0001-009 Box 1 Folder 10 Arnold, Isaac N., Washington, D.C., to Samuel B. Ruggles [New York?], 1863 April 6, A.L.S. 2 p. 6 View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0001-010 Box 1 Folder 11 Arnold, Isaac N., A page of MS of his "Life of Abraham Lincoln." [1866], A.Df 1 p. View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0001-011 Box 1 Folder 12 Baker, E.D., and Abraham Lincoln, Washington, D.C., to Col. N. Greene Wilcox, n.p., 1849 March 14, Copy 1 p. View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0001-012 Box 1 Folder 13 Baldwin, F.H., Cincinnati, to Joseph H. Barrett, Loveland, OH, 1887 November 17, A.L.S. 1 p. View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0001-013 Box 1 Folder 14 Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, Vicksburg, MS, to Henry Wager Halleck, n.p., 1863 August 1, L.S. 3 p. View digitized documents. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/md/lincolnmss-0001-014 Box 1 Folder 15 Barnard, John Gross, [Washington, D.C. ?], to John Aaron Rawlins, n.p., 1865 May 14, A.L.S. 2 p. View digitized documents.