MS Lincoln 1 Lincoln Room collection of miscellaneous papers: Guide.
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Last update on 2011 October 19
Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: b [Lincoln Room]
Call No.: MS Lincoln 1
Title: Lincoln Room collection of miscellaneous papers,
Date(s): 1837-1924.
Quantity: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)
Language of materials: Collection materials are in English.
Abstract: Correspondence and other materials by and about Abraham Lincoln primarily
collected by Willaim W. Nolen. There are also documents concerning slaves,
particularly in Louisiana.
Most of these manuscripts were part of the Nolen collection of Lincolniana,
bequeathed to Harvard by William W. Nolen, class
of 1884, received: 1924-1925.
More specific acquisition information follows each item entry and notes, if it is
known.
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
Lincoln Room Collection of Miscellaneous Papers (MS Lincoln 1). Houghton Library,
Harvard University.
Organized into the following series:
- I. Correspondence to, from or about
Lincoln
- II. Compositions and documents by Lincoln
- III. Compositions and documents about Lincoln
- IV.
Images of Lincoln
- V. Other materials
Includes letters from Lincoln to Samuel Austin Allibone, Robert Todd Lincoln, Caleb
Blood Smith and Charles Sumner and other letters. There are Lincoln legal papers,
proof sheets of his First inaugural address, 8 pencil and wash portraits of Lincoln
by an unidentified artist, and printed materials concerning Lincoln, among other
items. The collection also includes documents concerning the sale of slaves,
especially in Louisiana.
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Series: III. Compositions and documents about Lincoln
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(97) [Purlesque visiting-card] Springfield, Ill.
[1864?]. Print.
Apparently issued by Lincoln's opponents in his second presidential
campaign.
Acquisition Information: W. W. Nolen collection,1924.
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(100) Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940. Lincoln, the man of the people.
TS.(mimeographed)s.; [n.p.] 1924.
1s.(1p.)
Poem read at dedication of Lincoln
Memorial, 1922.
Acquisition Information: 4 Dec
1925. Gift of Edwin Markham.
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(101) U.S. Congress. House. To Robert E. Hornor Esq...
MS.(unidentified hand); [Washington] 8 Jul
1848. 1s.(2p.)
Petition by 15 Representatives for retention of A.G.Matlack as messenger.
With signature of Abraham Lincoln.
Acquisition Information: W. W. Nolen collection,1924.
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Series: IV. Images of Lincoln
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(102) 8 pencil and wash portraits of Lincoln; [v.p.] 1862-1865.
Several are caricatures and two bear the artist's signature, `Frost.'
Acquisition Information: Cl 9828 - 9835 F.
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Series: V. Other materials
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(104) List of photostats from Nolen Collection in A.L.s. PF folder :
typescript, undated.
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(105) Cut signatures of soldiers and politicians of the American Civil
War : AMss, undated.
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(106) Slavery documents : AMssS, DsS, 1765-1853.
Includes the following documents:
- New Orleans (La).
Sale of slave Louisa by Catherine Dinet
(deceased) to Emile Solny,
Alfred L. Solny, and
Victor Solny : DMsSS, 1853 Nov. 18. Concerning: a "slave
named Louisa, aged about 19 years , cook and housegirl." She? is
the "daughter of the slave Celia or Cecilia purchased from
Wm. Cotton on account of exchange ?
before Wm. Boswell on the 2d March 1831. Sale made for 824 dollars.
Document on blue paper, labeled: No. 256, in English.
- New Orleans (La). Sale of
slave Rachel byMadame Luce Coudrain, 1853 Feb. 15. Negro slave named
Rachel aged about 55, acquired by Adele
Coudrain from Louis Adolphe Bayon,
1852 Sept. 4. Also includes
names: Antoine Toca and François
Varion. Document partially printed, labeld: No.
37. Document written in French.
- New
Orleans (La.). Sheriff of the Parish of
Orleans. Notice of intention to emancipate the
slave Francis aged about 30 years : DsS with AMs annotations and
corrections, 1848 July 21. Notice posted by heirs
of Claire Houstin, widow of
Jacques Lefebvre. Also includes
signatures of the sheriff and the clerk of the district court.
This document is in English and French.
- Wentworth, John. Bill of
sale to Hugh Hall Wentworth for Negro slave
boy named Prince, value 25.00 pouns : AMsS (in the hand of John
Wentworth), Portsmouth, Va?, 1765 Mar. 7.
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