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CollectionAbraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress The papers of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), lawyer, representative from Illinois, and sixteenth president of the United States, contain approximately 40,550 documents dating from 1774 to 1948, although most of the collection spans from the 1850s through Lincoln’s presidency (1861-1865). Roughly half of the collection, more than 20,000 documents, comprising 62,000 images, as well as transcriptions of approximately 10,000 documents, is online. Included on this...
- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
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ArticleAbraham Lincoln and Emancipation The Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment brought about by the Civil War were important milestones in the long process of ending legal slavery in the United States. This essay describes the development of those documents through various drafts by Lincoln and others and shows both the evolution of Abraham Lincoln’s thinking and his efforts to operate within the constitutional boundaries of the presidency.
- Date: 1862
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ArticleAssassination of President Abraham Lincoln On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Accompanying him at Ford's Theatre that night were his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone's fiancée, Clara Harris. After the play was in progress, a figure with a drawn derringer pistol stepped...
- Date: 1865
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ArticleEditors' Preface to the Transcriptions How did the editors choose which documents to transcribe and what editorial rules to follow? This essay provides answers to those questions and also includes a brief bibliography of sources consulted and basic background information on Lincoln’s writing style, penmanship, and preservation practices.
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAbraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: Andrew Jackson to Andrew I. Crawford, Wednesday, May 01, 1833 (Nullification and slavery)
- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
- Date: 1833-05-01
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAbraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: Abraham Lincoln, Michael Killion, and Hugh Armstrong to Sangamon County Illinois Court, June [2] 1834 (Report with Map)
- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
- Date: 1834-06-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAbraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: Asher Robbins, Friday, June 17, 1836 (Printed Speech)
- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
- Date: 1836-06-17
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAbraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: Abraham Lincoln to Elias H. Merryman, [September 19, 1842] (Dueling instructions)
- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
- Date: 1842-09-19
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAbraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: Montgomery Blair to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, April 11, 1861 (Extract; Advertising for contracts; endorsed by Blair)
- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
- Date: 1861-04-11
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAbraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: Leander Munsell to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, April 23, 1846 (Appointment)
- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
- Date: 1846-04-23
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAbraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: Zachary Taylor, et al., 1844-1862 (Recommendations for William Grandin;)
- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
- Date: 1844-00-00
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAbraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: Cyrus Aldrich, et al., May-June 1862 (Recommendations for William Grandin)
- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
- Date: 1862-05-00
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAbraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: Charles Sumner, January 2, 1848 (Proposed amendments to Mexican Treaty)
- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
- Date: 1848-01-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAbraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: James K. Polk, Monday, June 12, 1848 (Printed Copy of Treaty with Republic of New Grenada)
- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
- Date: 1848-06-12
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAbraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: U. S. Senate, Executive Journals, 1847-48 (Proceedings on New Granada Treaty)
- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
- Date: 1847-00-00
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAbraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: John A. McClernand to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, May 26, 1847 (Retention of Braxton Parrish)
- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
- Date: 1847-05-26
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