Butler University Digital Commons @ Butler University Special Collections Bibliographies University Special Collections 1983 Lincolniana: A Collection of Pamphlets, Booklets, Manuscripts. Magazine and Newspaper Articles Relating to the Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) (1983) Gisela S. Hersch Terrell Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/scbib Part of the Other History Commons Recommended Citation Hersch Terrell, Gisela S., "Lincolniana: A Collection of Pamphlets, Booklets, Manuscripts. Magazine and Newspaper Articles Relating to the Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) (1983)" (1983). Special Collections Bibliographies. Book 2. http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/scbib/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Special Collections at Digital Commons @ Butler University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Collections Bibliographies by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Butler University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LiNCOLNIANA r ^ A'-'Vi>ti LINCOLNIANA A collection of pamphlets, booklets, manuscripts, magazine and newspaper articles relating to the life and times of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Compiled and annotated by Gisela Hersch with the assistance of Lisa E. Landau Hugh Thomas Miller Rare Book Room IrTvin Library Butler University 4600 Sunset Avenue Indianapolis, Indiana 46208 (317) 285-9265 February 1983 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/lincolnianacolleOOgise — LINCOLNIANA . A collection of pamphlets, booklets, manus- cripts, magazine and newspaper articles, mostly from the collection of Charles W. Moores (1862-1923) Charles W. Moores, lawyer, one-time President of the Board of School Commissioners in Indianapolis, life- long Lincoln scholar and collector: he began his study of Lincoln at a time when many of Lincoln's friends and foes, neighbors and associates were still alive. Moores pub- lished several works about Lincoln, most notably an address read first before the meeting of the American Bar Association in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on September 1, 1910. This address was subsequently pub- lished in the American Law Review and also as a separate printing. Our collection contains not only the printed text as well as the author's profusely annotated typescript of The Career of a_ Country Lawyer ; Abraham Lincoln, but also Moores' ensuing correspondence with other Lincoln scholars and collectors, and other manuscript material. Butler University acquired Moores' collection of Lincolniana in 1925. Many of the books are housed in the Irwin Library's open stacks. The rare books, those that are limited in copies printed, inscribed by their authors; early works, and all pamphlets, newspapers, manuscripts, and paraphernalia are housed in the Hugh Thomas Miller Rare Book Room. We are especially proud of an early Lincoln manuscript, a note written and signed by Lincoln in the suit of Pearson and Anderson versus Bird Monroe, filed in the Circuit Court of Coles Co., Illinois, May 24, 1842. Lincoln represented the defendant. This catalogue of Lincolniana lists only the pamphlet collection, not the larger books, the Lincoln manuscript, or our collection of April 1865 newspapers. The pamphlet collection is of special importance. Subjects range from eyewitness accounts of the Republican Convention of 1860 to ser- mons and eulogies of 1865; from arguments about the suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus during Civil War times to foreign policy matters; from gossip to statesmanship. Lincoln's major speeches, state papers, contemporary campaign literature, accounts of assassination and trial. Civil War episodes, unionist and secessionist arguments and propaganda, a bit of everything is here, and many of the pieces that Moores collected, are not found in larger, better-known Lincoln collections elsewhere. Charles W. Moores was not, however, the sole contributor to this collection. More recent items came from Donald C. Durman, M.D., of Saginaw, Michigan, friend to Dr. Richard Mudd, the grandson of Dr. Samuel Mudd. Durman' s files about Lincoln statues and their sculptors remain yet to be sorted. Manuscript and photographic materials have been incorporated with the printed items, to accompany the pieces to which they refer. Unless otherwise noted, each piece is in its original binding. With a complete name and title index at end. Gisela Hersch : Cataloguers ' abbreviations and symbols ads advertisement (s) approx aPP^oJ^imately c copyright date (as in cl865) ca circa cm centimeter Co - Company Corp Corporation ed edition facsim. (facsims.) facsimile (s) front frontispiece illus illustrative material incl including Mo Monaghan number (as in Mo. 40). Refers to: Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, vol. XXXI; Lincoln Bibliography 1839-1939, compiled by Jay Monaghan. Springfield, 1943. Mss Manuscript (s) , i.e. holographs and/or typescripts n.d no date (of printing or publishing) n.n no name (publisher's or printer's) n.p no place (of printing or publishing) no number p page(s) port, (ports.) portrait (s) pseud pseudonym t.-p title-page vol volume Abbreviations for manuscript material M.L Manuscript (= holograph) letter M.L.S Manuscript letter, signed M.N Manuscript note (defined as five sentences or less of no informative contents) M.N.S Manuscript note, signed T.L Typewritten letter T.L.S Typewritten letter, signed T.N Typewritten note T.N.S Typewritten note, signed Symbols * preceding item number: not in Monaghan (not used for items published after 1939) [ ] square brackets information within square brackets supplied by the cataloguer " " —xyz Quoted from xyz , as in "Limited to 25 copies."— xyz. This catalogue is limited to 500 copies printed. *1. A. L. [A booklet published for the observance of Independence Day 1909, by the] Press of N. W. Ayer and Son, Philadelphia. 32 p. incl. illus. 26 cm. Includes excerpts from various sources about Abraham Lincoln; arranged in alphabetical order. 2. Abraham Lincoln and Mary Owen. Three letters: Lincoln to Mrs. 0. H. Browning; 1. N. Arnold to O. H. Browning; O. H. Browning to I. N. Arnold. Springfield, 111.: Barker's Art Store, 1922. 12 p. 21 cm. "Limited to 150 copies. Privately printed." From the foreword: "The three letters that follow were at one time in my possession and I will vouch for their genuineness." Signed in ink: H. E. Barker. Mo. 2548. 3. Abraham Lincoln Association, SpringfieZd, Illinois Banquet celebrating the one hundred and second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln by the Lincoln Centennial Association, Saturday, February the eleventh nineteen hundred and eleven, the Illinois State Armory, Springfield, [n.p., n.n., 1911?] [12] p. incl. ports. 25 cm. Mo. 1993. Compare with Rare Book Room item 973.7/L736W/A159£i/1911 (addresses delivered at the 1911 banquet) *4. Abraham Lincoln, in memoriam. New York: Trent, Filmer [n.d.] 12 p. 21 cm. Includes Farewell speech to his Springfield friends; Proclamation of Emancipation; Address at Gettysburg; Second Inaugural address; A poem ... "Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" [by William Knox] 5. Adams, George E. Lincoln; address delivered at Quincy, Illinois, Tuesday, October 13, 1908, before the State Historical Society of Illinois, and the Lincoln-Douglas Semi-Centennial Society Peterboro, N.H. : Transcript Printing Co., 1908. 12 p. 22 cm. Mo. 1562. 6. Address by the Union League of Philadelphia, to the citizens of Pennsylvania, in favor of the re-election of Abraham Lincoln. Philadelphia: King & Baird, printers, 1864. 30 p. 22 cm. Cover title. Mo. 360. 7. Address of Abraham Lincoln delivered at the consecration of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, together with the proceedings in the United States Senate on the occasion of the reading of the address on February 12, 1920; presented by Mr. Keyes, February 14, 1920. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920. 8 p. incl. illus., facsims. 29 cm. At head of title: 66th Cong., 2d sess.. Senate Doc. no. 236. Mr. Keyes read from Lincoln's manuscript, the fifth version which is here reproduced in facsim. , with the facsim. of a letter by Robert T. Lincoln. Mo. 2462. ] *8. The Address of the Southern and Western Liberty Convention, held at Cincinnati, June 11 & 12, 1845, to the People of the United States. With notes by a Citizen of Pennsylvania, [n.p. , n.n. , n.d. 15, [1] p. 23 cm. Caption title. Printed in double colxamns. Disbound. "The Southern and Western Liberty Convention . was the most remarkable anti-slavery body yet assembled in the United States." — footnote p. [1] Distributed by William Harned, New York, for $10 per thousand copies. *9. Addresses by His Excellency Governor John A. Andrew, Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. B. F. Thomas, and Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, delivered at the mass meeting in aid of recruiting, held on the Common under the auspices of the Committee of One Hundred and Fifty, on Wednesday, August 27, 1862. Boston: J. E. Farwell, 1862. 16 p. 24 cm. *10. Addresses on the death of Hon. Edward D. Baker, delivered in the Senate and the House of Representatives on Wednesday, December 11, 1861. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1862. 87 p. 23 cm. Disbound. *11. "Allen Pinkerton's unpublished story of the first attempt on the life of Abraham Lincoln. Illustrations by Jay Hambidge. The his- tory of the letter [by Pinkerton] by Jesse W. Weik. Introduction by Ida M. Tarbell." Detached from The American Magazine [no date or no.] , p. 17-22 incl. illus. 25 cm. Pinkerton's account, written August 23, 1866, of Lincoln's secret journey from Harrisburg to Washington on the night of Feb. 22, 1861. This account's history "is told in the introductory note by Jesse W. Weik of Greencastle, Indiana, from whom it was secured. Mr. Weik was William Herndon's collaborator in his 'Life of Lincoln'." —p. 18 (for other works by Herndon and Weik, see also the Rare Book Room's book collection of Lincoln materials) Mo.