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Collection Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana

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Selected Archival Resources for William Henry Herndon and Jesse William Weik

For Library of Congress collections, please click on the catalog record links for a fuller description and additional links to available online finding aids, indexes, and digital collections.

  • Letters to Truman H. Bartlett, 1875-1920, Ms. N-636, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass. Collection description available on ABIGAIL library catalog External.
  • William E. Barton Collection of Books from the Lincoln and Herndon Law Library, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, Chicago, Ill. PDF version of guide available online External.
  • Albert J. Beveridge Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Jeremiah S. Black Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • W. A. Croffut Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Caroline Wells Healey Dall Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass. Collection guide available online External. A microfilm edition of this collection is available at the Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Caroline Wells Healey Dall Papers, Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library, Bryn Mawr, Penn. Finding aid available online in HTML External and PDF External formats.
  • John William Draper Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Archer Gray Herndon documents, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Ill. This institution holds several collections containing Archer Gray Herndon materials. Consult the online catalog External for more information.
  • William H. Herndon documents, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Ill. This institution holds several collections containing William Henry Herndon materials. Consult the online catalog External for more information.
  • William H. Herndon and Theodore Parker Correspondence, 1854-1859, Illinois History and Lincoln Collections, University of Illinois Library, Urbana, Ill. Collection description available online External.
  • Visual materials from the Herndon-Weik collection of Lincolniana, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Catalog record available online.
  • Ethan Allen Hitchcock Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Ward Hill Lamon Papers, 1848-1894, Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif. Catalog record available online External.
  • Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Abraham Lincoln's arithmetic or "student sum book" page, ca. 1824-1826, Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Color scans are available online in several downloadable formats.
  • Robert Todd Lincoln Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Robert Todd Lincoln Letterpress Volumes, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Ill. Catalog record available online External.
  • Victor Murdock Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • John G. Nicolay Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Theodore Parker Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass. Collection guide available online External. A microfilm edition of this collection is available at the Library of Congress; see LC catalog record. An unpublished Catalog Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Theodore Parker Papers, 1826-1862 (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1979), which includes an alphabetical list of items in the collection, is available in the MHS library.
  • Wendell Phillips Papers, 1555-1882 (MS Am 1953), Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Finding aid available online External.
  • J. G. Randall and Ruth Painter Randall Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress. Available online.
  • Lyman Trumbull Correspondence, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Justin G. Turner Autograph Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • E. B. Washburne Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Booker T. Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Jesse William Weik Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Ill. Catalog record available online External.
  • Jesse William Weik Papers, Archives of DePauw University and Indiana United Methodism, Archives and Special Collections, Roy O. West Library, DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind. Collection guide available online External.
  • Richard Yates Correspondence, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.

Selected Writings by or Associated with William Henry Herndon and Jesse William Weik

  • Herndon, William H. Abraham Lincoln, Miss Ann Rutledge, New Salem, Pioneering, and the Poem, a Lecture Delivered in the Old Sangamon County Court House, November, 1866, by William H. Herndon. Springfield, Ill.: n.p., 1910. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Herndon, William H. "Analysis of the Character of Abraham Lincoln: A Lecture by William H. Herndon." Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 1, no. 7 (1941): 343-383. LC catalog record. Available online External.
  • Herndon, William H. Brief Analysis of Lincoln's Character: A Letter to J. E. Remsburg ... from W. H. Herndon ... September 10, 1887. N.p.: private printing, 1917. LC catalog record.
  • Herndon, William H. Herndon on Lincoln. 2 vols. Edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press for Knox College Lincoln Studies Center, 2016-forthcoming. LC catalog record.
  • Herndon, William H. Lincoln and Douglas. The Peoria Debates and Lincoln's Power. A Broadside Published in 1866 by Wm. H. Herndon. N.p.: Private printing, 1917. LC catalog record. Available online through Internet Archive.
  • Herndon, William H. Lincoln's Personal Characteristics. Los Angeles, Calif.: Privately printed for H. E. Barker, 1933. LC catalog record.
  • Herndon, William H. Lincoln's Philosophy of Life. Los Angeles, Calif.: Privately printed for H. E. Barker, 1933. LC catalog record.
  • Herndon, William H. Lincoln's Religion. The Text of Addresses Delivered by William H. Herndon and James A. Reed, and a Letter by C. F. B. Edited by Douglas C. McMurtrie. Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1936. LC catalog record.
  • Herndon, William H., and Jesse W. Weik. Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton, 1892. LC catalog record . Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive (Vol. 1; Vol. 2). Reprint, New York: D. Appleton, 1893. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1916. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive (Vol. 1; Vol. 2). [Revised edition of Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)]
  • Herndon, William H., and Jesse W. Weik. Herndon's Life of Lincoln: The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln. Introduction and notes by Paul M. Angle. New York: A. & C. Boni, 1930. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, New York: A. & C. Boni, 1936. LC catalog record. Reprint, Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1943. LC catalog record. Reprint, Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1949. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Revised edition, Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1961. LC catalog record. Reprint, with new introduction by Henry Steele Commager. New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, 1983. LC catalog record.
  • Herndon, William H., and Jesse W. Weik. Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln. 3 vols. Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Company, 1889. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, Springfield, Ill.: Herndon's Lincoln Publishing Company, 1921. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive (Vol. 1 External; Vol. 2; Vol. 3). [See also Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1892), a revised edition of Herndon's Lincoln.]
  • Herndon, William H., and Jesse W. Weik. Herndon's Lincoln. Edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press for Knox College Lincoln Studies Center, 2006. LC catalog record.
  • Hertz, Emanuel, ed. The Hidden Lincoln. From the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon. New York: The Viking Press, 1938. LC catalog record.
  • Reed, James A. The Religion of Abraham Lincoln, Being a Reprint of the Lecture of Rev. Jas. A. Reed in 1872, and the Answering Lecture of W. H. Herndon in 1873. N.p.: n.p., 1915. LC catalog record.
  • Townsend, George Alfred. The Real Life of Abraham Lincoln: A Talk with Mr. Herndon, His Late Law Partner. New York: Publication Office, Bible House, 1867. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External, and in PDF and page view format from the Library of Congress Law Library.
  • Weik, Jesse W. The Real Lincoln: A Portrait. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Weik, Jesse W. The Real Lincoln: A Portrait. Edited by Michael Burlingame. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. LC catalog record.
  • Wilson, Douglas L., and Rodney O. Davis, eds. Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. LC catalog record.

Selected Related Resources

  • Barker, Harry E. "Unveiling of the William H. Herndon Monument at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill., Thursday, May 30, 1918." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 11, no. 2 (1918): 197-209. LC catalog record. Available online External through JSTOR.
  • Benner, Martha L., and Cullom Davis, eds. The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition. Computer file. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000. LC catalog record.
  • Burlingame, Michael. "Why a New Biography of William Herndon Is Needed." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 35, no. 2 (2014): 55-66. LC catalog record. Available online External.
  • Carwardine, Richard. "'Simply a Theist': Herndon on Lincoln's Religion." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 35, no. 2 (2014): 18-36. LC catalog record. Available online.
  • Ceremonies at the Unveiling of Monument to William H. Herndon ... Oak Ridge Cemetery, May 30, 1918. Springfield, Ill., 1918. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Clements, McKenzie A., and Nerida F. Ellerton. "Abraham Lincoln's Cyphering Book and the Abbaco Tradition." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 36, no. 1 (Winter 2015): 1-17. LC catalog record. Available online.
  • "'The Coming Rude Storms' of Lincoln Writings: William H. Herndon and the Lincoln Legend." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 71, no. 1 (1978): 66-70. LC catalog record.
  • Davis, Rodney O. "William Herndon's Indiana Oral History Project, 1865." Indiana Magazine of History 89, no. 2 (1993): 136-46. LC catalog record.
  • Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln's Herndon. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1948. LC catalog record. Reprint, New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, 1988. LC catalog record.
  • Donald, David Herbert. "We are Lincoln Men": Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. LC catalog record.
  • Erickson, Gary Lee. "The Last Years of William Henry Herndon." Journal of the Illinois State Historical 67, no. 1 (1974): 101-119. LC catalog record.
  • Lander, James. "Herndon's ‘Auction List' and Lincoln's Interest in Science." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 32, no. 2 (2011): 16-49. LC catalog record. Available online External.
  • The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln. Second edition. Papers of Abraham Lincoln. Online External resource.
  • Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Roy P. Basler. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953-1955. LC catalog record. Available online External courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Association.
  • Newton, Joseph Fort. Lincoln and Herndon. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1910. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Schwartz, Thomas F. "'I Have Never Had Any Doubt of Your Good Intentions': William Henry Herndon and Ward Hill Lamon as Described in Correspondence from the Robert T. Lincoln Letterpress Volumes." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 14, no. 1 (1993): 35-54. LC catalog record. Available online External.
  • Schwartz, Thomas F. "'Not Even Wrong': Herndon and His Informants." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 35, no. 2 (2014): 37-54. LC catalog record. Available online External.
  • Shepard, Randall T. "Jesse W. Weik: The Young Indiana Lawyer Who Made Herndon's Lincoln Possible." Indiana Magazine of History 105, no. 4 (2009): 365-390. LC catalog record.
  • Simon, John Y. "Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 11, no. 1 (1990): 13-33. LC catalog record. Available online External.
  • Stowell, Daniel W., ed. The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. LC catalog record.
  • Strozier, Charles B. "The Lives of William Herndon." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 14, no. 1 (1993): 1-13. LC catalog record. Available online External.
  • Temple, Wayne C. "Herndon on Lincoln: An Unknown Interview with a List of Books in the Lincoln & Herndon Law Office." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 98, no. 1/2 (2005): 34-50. LC catalog record.
  • Thomas, Benjamin P. Portrait for Posterity: Lincoln and His Biographers. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1947. LC catalog record. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1972. LC catalog record.
  • Warren, Louis A. "Herndon's Contribution to Lincoln Mythology." Indiana Magazine of History 41, no. 3 (1945): 221-244. LC catalog record.
  • Wilson, Douglas L. "Abraham Lincoln, Ann Rutledge, and the Evidence of Herndon's Informants." Civil War History 36, no. 4 (December 1990): 301-324. LC catalog record .
  • Wilson, Douglas L. "Herndon's Legacy" and "William H. Herndon and the ‘Necessary Truth.'" In Lincoln before Washington: New Perspectives on the Illinois Years, by Douglas L. Wilson, pages 21-52. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. LC catalog record.
  • Wilson, Douglas L. "Keeping Lincoln's Secrets." Atlantic Monthly (May 2000): 78-88. Available online External.
  • Wilson, Douglas L. "William H. Herndon and His Lincoln Informants." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 14, no. 1 (1993): 15-34. LC catalog record. Available online External.
  • Wilson, Douglas L. "William H. Herndon and Mary Todd Lincoln." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 22, no. 2 (2001): 1-26. LC catalog record. Available online External.
  • Wilson, Douglas L. "William H. Herndon on Lincoln's Fatalism." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 35, no. 2 (2014): 1-17. LC catalog record. Available online External.
  • W. O. Davie & Co. The Private Library of W. H. Herndon, Esq. (Former Law Partner of Hon. Abraham Lincoln), at Auction on Friday and Saturday Evenings, Jan. 10 and 11, 1873, at 7 O'Clock Each Evening. Cincinnati: W. O. Davie & Co., 1873. LC catalog record.

Compiled November 2019